Lear, Edward, 1812–88, English humorist and artist. At 19 he was employed as a draftsman by the London Zoological Society; the paintings of birds that he produced for The Family of the Psittacidae (1832) were among the first color plates of animals ever published in Great Britain. Lear is best known for his illustrated limericks and nonsense verse, which were collected in A Book of Nonsense (1846), Nonsense Songs (1871), Laughable Lyrics (1877), and others. He wrote several illustrated journals of his travels through S Europe.

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See biographies by A. Davidson (1938, repr. 1968), V. Noakes (1969), and P. Levi (1995); studies by V. Dehejia (1989) and J. Wullschläger (1995).

Lear, Edward

Edward Lear, drawing by William Holman Hunt, 1857; in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

(credit: Courtesy of the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)

(born May 12, 1812, Highgate, near London, Eng.—died Jan. 29, 1888, San Remo, Italy) English painter and comic poet. From age 15 he earned his living by drawing. Employed to illustrate the earl of Derby's private menagerie in the 1830s, he later produced Book of Nonsense (1846) for the earl's grandchildren. His other works include Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets (1871), containing “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat,” and Laughable Lyrics (1877). He is best known for popularizing the limerick. He also published volumes of bird and animal drawings and seven illustrated travel books. Epileptic and depressive, he lived mainly abroad after 1837.

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Byline: SARAH BATLEY RADIO and TV presenter Nicholas Parsons first fell in love with the work of nonsensical genius Edward Lear thanks to bedtime stories from his doctor dad.

A pleasure to meet Mr Lear; GO... to the theatre by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

The famous Victorian portrait photographer - perhaps the UK's first ever celebrity snapper - lived at Dimbola Lodge from 1860-1875, where she photographed the cream of Victorian Society, including Tennyson himself, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Charles Darwin, and members of Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury set.

Take the isle's Tennyson tour by Birmingham Mail (England)

1812: Limerick writer Edward Lear, author of The Book Of Nonsense, was born in London.

Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

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Edward George Gibson

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