Live Auction 7891Victorian & British Impressionist Pictures Including Drawings and Watercolours
Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Lot 74

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Near Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt

Closed15 December 2010

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GBP 34,850

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Edward Lear (1812-1888)
Near Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt
signed with monogram (lower right)
pencil and watercolour, on paper
4 x 8 in. (10.2 x 20.3 cm.)

Lord Northbrook and Lady Emma Baring by whom given to
The Hon. Miss Portman.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, 19 November 1985, lot 275, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

Lear met Thomas Baring, later the Earl of Northbrook, in February 1848, and described him as 'an extremely luminous & amiable brick, & I like him very much...& I suppose he likes me or he wouldn't take the trouble of knocking me up as he does considering the lot of people he might take to instead' (Letter to Chichester Fortescue, 12 February 1848, in V. Noakes, Edward Lear: The Life of a Wanderer, London, 2006, p. 71).

For other works by Lear in Egypt see lots 71, 72, 73 and 75.