Edward Lear

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Edward Lear (12 May 1812, Holloway, writer, composer, and poet, best known for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose, as well as his limericks, which he popularized.

He was particularly interested in three aspects of his art as an illustrator: drawing drawings during his travels; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems.

He is best known for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, and alphabets.

He's also composed and published twelve musical interpretations of Tennyson's poetry.

Early years

Lear was born in Holloway, North London, and the youngest of 21 children (and the youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skeremiah Lear, a stockbroker who was previously working in the family sugar refining industry. He was raised by his eldest sister, Ann, who was also 21 years old. Following the Napoleonic Wars, Jeremiah Lear's brother and sister were forced to leave the family home, Bowmans Lodge, and live together when he was four years old; later, he was forced to return to the London Stock Exchange in the financial crisis that followed the Napoleonic Wars. Ann Doted on Edward and continued to act as a father for him until his death, when she was nearly 50 years old.

Lear suffered from lifelong illnesses. He had frequent grand mal epileptic seizures, bronchitis, asthma, and, in later life, partial blindness. Lear and his father survived his first seizure at a fair near Highgate. The evenimentului scared and disgusted him. Lear's epileptic illness sparked resentment and sadness throughout his life. According to his adult diaries, he always felt the onset of a seizure in time to remove himself from public view. He began experiencing signs of depression when Lear was seven years old, perhaps as a result of his childhood's turmoil. He suffered from bouts of severe melancholia that he referred to as "the Morbids."

By the time he was 16 years old and onwards, Lear became a "ornithological draughtsman" for the Zoological Society and later evolved into a skilled "ornithological draughtsman" who worked from 1832 to 1836, who owned a private menagerie at his estate, Knowsley Hall. He was the first major bird painter to draw birds from real live birds rather than skins. Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in 1830, Lear's first book, which was published when he was 19 years old, was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots in 1830. Elizabeth Gould taught Elizabeth Gould despite not being connected to John Gould's art and was compared by some to naturalist John James Audubon. After his eyesight deteriorated too much to work with such precision on plate etchings and engravings used in lithography, he turned to landscape painting and travel.

He lived in Greece and Egypt between 1848 and 1949, as well as a brief visit to Ceylon. While traveling, he produced a large number of colored wash drawings in a unique style, which he later turned into oil and watercolour paintings in his studio, as well as books for his books. His landscape style includes a lot of sun and intense contrasts of color.

Lear spent his summers on Monte Generoso, a mountain on the border between the Swiss canton of Ticino and the Italian region of Lombardy, between 1878 and 1883. His oil painting The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso is on view at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

He continued to paint seriously throughout his life. He had a lifelong desire to illustrate Tennyson's poems; but after his life, a book with a small number of illustrations was published.

Lear began a journey across the Italian peninsula in 1842, traveling through Lazio, Rome, Abruzzo, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria. Sicily and the United States. Lear collected his observations on the Italian way of life, folklore, and the beauty of the ancient monuments in personal notes, as well as drawings. The Abruzzo, which Lear discovered in 1843, was particularly noteworthy, as shown by an old sheep track of shepherds on the plateau of Cinque Miglia (Celano, Avezzano, Alba Fucens, Trasacco) and the Abruzzo (Celano, Avezzano, Trasacco) and the Monsie Miglia (Castel di Sangro and Alfedena).

With Mount Sirente, Lear drew a map of Albe's medieval village of Celano, with the castle of Piccolomini dominating the vast plain of Lago Fucino, which was drained a few years later to foster agricultural growth. Lear Lear wrote about the magnificent basilica in Castel di Sangro in the winter.

The trip to southern Italy in 1847, according to Lear's Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, was one of the best in his travel literature.

Lear primarily played the piano, but he also played accordion, flute, and small guitar. He composed music for several Romantic and Victorian poems, but Tennyson's poetry was mostly known for his numerous musical interpretations. In 1853, five in 1859, and three in 1860, he published four settings, five in 1859, five in 1859, and three in 1860. Lear's were the only musical settings that Tennyson understood. Lear also composed music for several of his nonsense songs, including "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," but only two of the scores have survived, including "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bonghy-B" and "The Pelican Chorus." Although he never performed professionally, he did perform his own nonsense songs and settings of others' poetry at countless social gatherings, sometimes adding his own lyrics (as with the album "The Nervous Family") and occasionally replacing boring lyrics with nursery rhymes.

Franklin Lushington was Lear's most devoted and painful friendship. In 1849, he met the young barrister in Malta and toured southern Greece with him. Lear's obsession with him began when Lushington did not fully reciprocate. Though they were best friends for almost 40 years before Lear's death, Lear's loneliness was never torment. In fact, Lear's attempts at male companionship were not all fruitful; Lear's passions may have ended these relationships;

Two plans, both to the same woman 46 years his junior, were not accepted, were the closest he came to marry. He depended on acquaintances and reporters, but especially in later life, on his Albanian Souliote chef, Giorgis, a faithful friend and (as Lear complained) a somewhat unsatisfactory chef. Foss, his cat who died in 1887 and was buried with some pomp in a garden at Villa Tennyson, was another trusted companion in San Remo.

Lear later settled in San Remo, on his beloved Mediterranean coast in the 1870s, where he referred to it as "Villa Tennyson."

Lear was known to unveil himself with the phrase "Mr Abebika Prizzik phashyph" or "Chakonoton" in the Cozovex. According to Deeba & Shuttlecock, "Mr. Kattefello Abebika hussa The Crazebiko Moti Fossi Sini Tomentilla "Chako Bhuth" or "Chakonoton is a form of Bawa Kattefello Kattefello a Kattefello kha rabika Prix Kattefello Abetonoko kha phash" or "Chako Kattefello Abe hatonymo a "Chako...

Lear died of heart disease at his villa in 1888, a condition he had suffered since at least 1870. The widow of Lear's Lear's funeral was described as a sad, bleak affair by her husband, Dr. Hassall, Lear's physician, but none of Lear's many lifelong acquaintances were able to attend.

Lear is buried in San Remo's Cemetery Foce. These lines about Mount Tomohrit (in Albania) are inscribed on his headstone, according to Tennyson's poem To E.L. [Edward Lear] on his travels in Greece:

In 1988, a set of Royal Mail stamps was released in the United Kingdom, as well as an exhibition at the Royal Academy. A plaque in Lear's birthplace area is now at Bowman's Mews, Islington, London, and his bicentenary in 2012 was commemorated with a variety of events, exhibitions, and lectures, including an International Owl and Pussycat Day on his birthday.

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