I hadn’t realised…

@Fleura (34927)
United Kingdom
January 6, 2023 3:06am CST
Or maybe I just forgot (quite possible!) that Edward Lear (1812-1888), famous for his nonsense rhymes and limericks and of course for ‘The Owl and the Pwssy-cat’ (apologies for the MyLot-approved spelling), was also a very talented painter, among other things. We just happened to be visiting a museum with friends a few days ago and there I came across several of his landscape paintings. He painted large landscapes from his travels in Italy and the Holy Land and I was just blown away by them, I don’t know why his work isn’t more widely celebrated. This photo certainly doesn’t do justice to his painting of Jerusalem. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
6 Jan 23
I confess that I also did not know that he also painted. This is an excellent painting. We had a friend who was a great painter and we are both angry that the Mom of my husband sold all his paintings. This is the photo of one of his paintings, while it was still hanging on a wall of my mother-in-law home, the author Rino Pianetti.
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Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 23
What a shame! He was obviously a great talent as well. What did he write?
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Anna
@LadyDuck (502148)
• Italy
6 Jan 23
@Fleura He was only a painter, internationally known, several museums around the world expose his paintings. She had some and she sold for almost nothing!!
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Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 23
@LadyDuck I think you mean they show or exhibit his paintings (hope you don't mind me saying that). But I can imagine you were furious!
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
6 Jan 23
If his work has found a place in a museum surely he was recognised?
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Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 23
Yes of course he obviously isn't unknown, but neither is he as well known as other artists such as Constable and Turner (British artists well known for their landscapes).
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
6 Jan 23
@Fleura Individuasl need to promote their work and that perhaps he did not do.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
6 Jan 23
I did not know that.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
6 Jan 23
It's a beautiful painting. Thanks for sharing it. We find unexpected pleasures in the strangest places.
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Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
6 Jan 23
Landscapes are my favourite.
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Valerie J. Routhieaux
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
6 Jan 23
@Fleura I think they're mine too. I have several hanging on my walls. Especially the English garden type.
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Ruby Hawk
@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
7 Jan 23
Nature scenes are my favorite paintings.
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CarolDM
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
7 Jan 23
That is a beautiful painting. I had no idea of his talent.
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changjiangzhibin89
@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
6 Jan 23
Sounds like he was an all-rounder.Maybe people don't know his paintings as much as his nonsense rhymes and limericks.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381744)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Jan 23
That looks pretty awesome in the photo. It would be even more so in real life. I didn't know he was a painter either.
Angie
@andriaperry (118793)
• Anniston, Alabama
6 Jan 23
Being an artist, whether painting or writing, is something some people don't know about, however, I can understand completely. Where one part shines, the other doesn't.
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Ms.Chelle
@Chellezhere (6421)
• United States
6 Jan 23
That approval spelling is certainly something else, isn't it? I am surprised it even lets me spell my name, what with Hades being in it.
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titin kartina
@Jinbuyeon22 (65)
• Indonesia
6 Jan 23
very nice painting
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