Edward Lear
(1812 - 1888)
Edward Lear was an artist.
From ArtValue.ca records, the highest price paid at auction for a pencil drawing work attributed to Edward Lear (1812-1888) was C$15,600 - paid for "A View Of Corte, Corsica From The Road Leading To Bastia, May 19th-21st, 1868" at Waddington's in Toronto on Thu, Dec 6, 2018.
ArtValue.ca has one auction art sale record for their pencil drawing results, with prices in the range of C$10,000 to C$25,000.
ArtValue.ca has one auction art sale record for their pencil drawing results, with prices in the range of C$10,000 to C$25,000.
Edward Lear left for Corsica on 8th April, 1868 in the company of the writer John Addington Symonds. Lear had originally intended to travel to Palestine, but decided to instead visit Corsica with the intention of publishing an illustrated journal. Afterwards Lear explored the island exhaustively, visiting the important town of Corte situated almost in the centre of the island between the 19th and 21st of May.