Edward Lear

1812–1888 · Realism

Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised but which term he never used.

36 paintings

• A View of the Roman Campagna with Travelers Passing a Ruined Brick Tomb, an Aqueduct in the Distance (1841)
• A View of the Roman Campagna, a Villa and Aqueduct in the Distance (1841)
• Rome, a View of the Forum with the Temple of Venus (1841)
• Nuneham (1860)
• Rome, a View of the Forum from a Terrace (1841)
• The Mountains of Thermopylae (1852)
• View of Beirut (1861)
• Bethlehem (1861)
• View of Florence from Villa San Firenze (1862)
• Kinchenjunga from Darjeeling (1877)
• Road near Galle, Ceylon (1879)
• A View of Adam's Peak, Ceylon (1882)
• View of Gwalior, India (1884)
• Ceylon Scenery
• Mountainous coastline, Corfu
• Temple of Venus and Roma, Rome (1840)
• Catania and Mount Etna (1847)
• Masada on the Dead Sea (1858)
• Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikéte (1857)
• Philae, Egypt (1863)
• Zagori, Greece (1860)
• Landscape with Goatherd (1842)
• Butrinto, Albania (1861)
• Between Olavano and Civitella (1842)
• Corfu from Santa Decca (1862)
• Corfu from Ascension (1862)
• The Marble Rocks - Nerbudda Jubbolpore (1882)
• Corfu from Ascension (1860)
• Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling (1879)
• Kinchinjunga (1877)
• The Forest of Valdoniello, Corsica (1869)
• View of Reggio and the Straits of Messina (1852)
• Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives (1858)
• A Study of Ferns, Civitella (1842)
• Corfu from near the Village of Virós (1858)
• Vue de Taormine en Sicile avec l'Etna dans le lointain (1852)