LEAR, Edward (British, 1812-1888). The Tor di Schiavi on the Via Labieana, Rome
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description: LEAR, Edward (British, 1812-1888). The Tor di Schiavi on the Via Labieana, Rome Oil on canvas. Signed: "E. Lear, 1842" 9" x 17 1/2" canvas, 18 1/4" x 26 1/4" framed. Provenance: Painted for Captain and Miss Phipps Hornby of Shooters Hill, Kent; Miss Edith Jones, and thence by descent. During the nineteenth century, artists and tourists alike flocked to Italy to observe the country's countless ruins and bask in its mythical golden sunlight. Edward Lear (1812-1888), author of books of nonsense, purveyor of limericks, and prolific creator of exquisite landscape art, captures both Italian wonders within these two marvelous paintings of the Roman environs. The first, The Tomb of Cecilia Metella on the Via Appia, Rome (1842), depicts the final resting place of the Roman Consul Creticus' daughter and member of the first Roman Triumvirate Crassus's son's wife. The tomb, whose occupant Cecilia Metella died in 50 B.C., is located on the Via Appia, the most important ancient Roman road connecting the Italian capital to Brindisi, Apulia in southeast Italy. The second work, The Tor di Schiavi on the Via Labicana, Rome (1842) illustrates the remains of an extensive villa built during the time of Diocleation and is situated on another chief Roman thoroughfare. Edward Lear was born into a middle-class family at Holloway, North London, the penultimate of twenty-one children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear. He was brought up by his eldest sister, also named Ann, twenty-one years his senior. Owing to the family’s limited finances, Lear and his sister were required to leave the family home and live together when he was aged four. Lear suffered from lifelong health afflictions starting from the age of six, his ailments included frequent grand mal epileptic seizures, and bronchitis, asthma, and during later life, partial blindness. Lear was already drawing “for bread and cheese” by the time he was aged sixteen and soon developed into a serious “ornitholo…
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