EDWARD LEAR (1812 -1888)
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Corfuwatercolour and brown ink on paper 25 x 43 cm inscribed: Corfu
P.292
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Lear first visited Corfu in April 1848, at the invitation of a new acquaintance, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, President of the University of Corfu. The island was then still under British rule. Lear returned there several times, describing it in 1864 as ‘the loveliest place in the world’. EJ PROVENANCE: Sotheby’s sale 22 April 1959, lot 29, from whom purchased by Gallery. EXHIBITIONS: English Watercolours from The Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford, Reading, Reading Museum and Art Gallery, 1965, no.30. copyright © Trustees of Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford. Extract taken from Watercolours and Drawings, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery by Evelyn Joll.
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