Road near Galle, Ceylon
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About the work
- Location
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Country: Sri Lanka
City: Colombo
Place: British High Commission
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About the artist
Edward Lear, best known for nonsense verse and limericks, was also a topographical landscape painter, musician, travel writer, ornithological and natural history draughtsman and an illustrator. Largely self-taught as a painter, he began by drawing animals at Knowsley Hall menagerie; later moving to landscape painting. He lived in Italy from 1837 to 1848, returning briefly when Queen Victoria requested twelve drawing lessons. He later studied at the Royal Academy Schools (1850-51). In 1852 he was introduced to William Holman Hunt, whose paintings became a great influence. From the early 1860s, Lear’s reputation as a landscape painter declined, perhaps partly a result of the mass-produced watercolours he made, which he called ‘Tyrants’.
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Explore
- Subjects
- travel & tourism, topography, genre, palm, ox, jungle, forest, Sri Lankan, man, woman, fan, Buddhism, road
- Materials & Techniques
- canvas, oil, oil painting
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Details
- Artist
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Edward Lear (1812 - 1888)
- Title
- Road near Galle, Ceylon
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Acquisition
- Purchased from John Teed, September 1952
- Inscription
- bl: monogram on stretcher bar: Road near Galle Edward Lear 1879
- GAC number
- 1867