Painter and writer

We very much enjoyed the Edward Lear article by David Farley-Hills.

In England, Edward Lear is still greatly underrated as a landscape painter, even though he spent the greater part of his life painting (and over 10,000 drawing sketches are attributed to him). In the UK, he is still remembered mostly as a writer of limericks and nonsense verse.

He spent many years working and choosing 200 views which were to illustrate the works of his great friend and poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson. One of the ones he chose was the beautiful view of the cliffs at Ta' Cenc.

Mr Lear was very much impressed by cliffs. In 1866, he wrote to a friend in England: "You are mistaken about scenery: Malta purzesses some of the finest cliffs in all the world".