Robert McCracken Peck's "The Natural History of Edward Lear" is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveler and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear ...

‘I wish I were an egg and was going to be hatched,” wrote Edward Lear in fallow middle age ... he was among the first artists to work from living birds rather than from taxidermic specimens.

Mr Lear: A Life Of Art And Nonsense Jenny Uglow Faber £25 On one of his perpetual travels abroad, Edward Lear stopped at a village in Albania, next to a stream full of watercress ...

Manhattan galleryites got a chance to judge Edward Lear the artist through his spontaneous sketches. “Oh, dear, dear, dear,” Lear once wrote, “the more I see of nature, the more sure I am ...

This exhibition, titled Edward Lear: Watercolours and Words, combines 21 Maltese works by this highly lyrical artist in a unique setting, side by side with Lear’s unpublished diary entries ...

On one such visit to my favourite bookshop Quinto that I chanced upon a painting of an Indian parakeet (and bought it for a £), it flaunted the name of Edward Lear as the artist. I had ...

Robert McCracken Peck's The Natural History of Edward Lear is, in part, a concise biography of the great Victorian artist, traveller and nonsense poet, but more particularly a celebration of Lear ...

Edward Lear is best known for his literary nonsense - he wrote poems ranging from limericks to the Owl and the Pussycat. But he was also a talented artist and to celebrate the bicentenary of his ...

This immersion inspired his deeper art. By recalling the Romantic voyaging ... called “The Death of Edward Lear.” It invents a scenario far from the actual circumstances of Lear’s death ...

Such is the captivating cover of The Viceroy’s Artist (Hachette India), a novel by academician and author Anindyo Roy. This fictionalised, inner-world narrative is one that explores the thoughts and ...