Michael Roberts, an artist from Yorkshire, got in touch with the society as he was inspired many years ago having read as he said “the quirky poetry of Lear”. In his own quirky way he has reproduced several of Lear’s best known pieces. The illustrated one and five others have been donated to the excellent … Continue reading »
UPCOMING: 09.09.2022–13.11.2022 Ikon’s exhibition is the first solely devoted to Lear’s sketches and landscape drawings from across the entire span of his career. This show examines the artist’s fascination with the creative process and is especially concerned with how his work came into being – through experimental methods of composition, successive drafts, doodlings and written marginalia. … Continue reading »
The first selling exhibition dedicated to Lear’s pictures for at least 30 years is under way at St James’s gallery Guy Peppiatt Fine Art. The online-only show, which runs until April 9, includes more than 30 drawings and watercolours covering his artistic career. Please click on the first link below to view the exhibition and the … Continue reading »
The Quangle Wangle’s Back! A great new rhyming picture book, illustrated in the style of Edward Lear, containing his original classic nonsense poem ‘The Quangle Wangle’s hat”. Author Rob Hann’s updated sequel “The Quangle Wangle’s Back! and a brief biography of the great man to entertain, educate and inform children and adults alike. Order from … Continue reading »
Edward Lear may “fairly be accounted one of the greatest of all natural history painters” writes David Attenborough in his forward to The Natural History of Edward Lear, a new book containing unseen works showing the nonsense poet’s prowess as a natural history painter. Robert McCracken Peck, author of the new publication is curator of art and … Continue reading »
Free public lecture Robert McCracken Peck, Curator of Art and Artifacts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University Edward Lear (1812–1888), best known for The Owl and the Pussycat and other nonsense poetry, was also an accomplished painter of birds, mammals, reptiles, and landscapes, and an adventurous world traveler. His paintings of parrots, macaws, toucans, owls, and other … Continue reading »
In the latest episode of the Slightly Foxed podcast, the Editors are joined at the table by eminent biographer Adam Sisman to discuss the delicate business of delving into the lives of others – warts and all or, sometimes, all warts no all, and the actor Nigel Anthony lends his voice to Edward Lear’s surreal … Continue reading »
One of the most productive of Lear’s travels in terms of high quality landscape drawings was his visit to Mount Athos in Greece in September 1856. Stephen Duckworth’s new website presents all the current research on that visit. Lear’s journal has been lost but the site contains transcriptions of his extensive letters to his sister … Continue reading »
The first of Lear’s travel books. Beginning in 1837 Lear spent several winters in Italy. “Views of Rome” records his first impressions of the land that was to become a second home to him. In these panoramic lithographs he is more concerned with the dramatic scenery around Rome than with the Holy City itself. Their … Continue reading »
Explore Lear’s exuberant genius – as a natural history artist, a landscapist and as a creator of unforgettable nonsense with Jenny Uglow on Saturday 3 February 2018 – 11.30 am – 12.30pm at the Works on Paper Fair at the Royal Geographical Society. We have teamed up with the Works on Paper Fair which has kindly … Continue reading »