Palazzo Falson logo
Menu icon for mobile devices
Visit
Plan Your VisitTicketsGustav CaféAccessibilityMuseum Policies
The PalazzoExhibitions
Learn
Read, watch, ListenChildren's WorkshopsTeachers' Resources
hire the venueNewsJoin & SupportCONTACT
The Palazzo
History & InformationThe FamilyThe Collection
Magnifying glass icon

Latest News & Events

Dusk Dialogues
International Museum Day
Palazzo Falson Celebrates Medieval Mdina
Easter Opening Hours
International House Museum Days - House Museums of Memory and Personages

Forthcoming Edward Lear exhibition at Palazzo Falson

September 30, 2014

On the 18th October 2014, the exhibition ‘Edward Lear: Watercolours and Words’ will open at Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum in Mdina, Malta.

Edward Lear (1812-1888) was a consummate landscape artist, who is best remembered for his paintings and his so-called ‘nonsense’ verse.  During his lifetime, Lear published several volumes of verse as well as accounts of his many travels. His travels were motivated by his desire to escape the damp winters of his native London and by his incessant search for new landscapes to paint. On his way to the milder climes of Greece and the Middle East he frequently made stopovers in Malta.  In 1865-66, however, he made the island his final destination. During that four-month visit, he painted nearly 300 on-site and a few dozen studio watercolours. This show brings together a number of these watercolours in an innovative display which matches up the works with Lear’s corresponding diary notes, giving us an unprecedented insight into the artist’s state of mind and working method at the time. In recent decades Lear’s art has been recognized and appreciated, and came under the spotlight in a number of posthumous exhibitions in prestigious Museums in the UK and the US. Correspondingly, paintings by Lear have now become very collectible.

The exhibition which is being organized by Palazzo Falson on behalf of Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, is guest-curated by John Varriano, Professor Emeritus of Art History at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts who is also the author of a forthcoming book, to be published by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, on Lear in Malta.

A programme of related events including lectures, gallery talks, artist workshops and children’s workshops will run throughout the exhibition.


Edward Lear: Watercolours and Words runs at Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum, Mdina from the 18th October 2014 to the 4th January 2015. Opening hours are from Tuesday – Sunday 10am – 4pm (closed Mondays).

< BACK TO PREVIOUS PAGE
No items found.
Palazzo Falson logo white

Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum
Villegaignon Street
Mdina
MDN 1191
Malta

facebook logoinstagram logoyoutube logoLinkedIn logo
Quality Assured seal – Malta Tourism AuthorityTripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2024 logo

Contact Details

Telephone

+356 2145 4512

Museum Curator

museumcurator@palazzofalson.com

Bookings and General Enquiries

bookings@palazzofalson.com

Administration Enquiries

museumadmin@palazzofalson.com

This website has been kindly sponsored by
Melita logo
Up chevron

BACK TO TOP

Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions   
Website design:  Palazzo Falson, 
gyro360
and Owen Desira
© 2024 Palazzo Falson