Edward Lear, English, 1812 to 1888, a Romanticism oil on canvas painting depicting a River Landscape. Housed in an original period gilt wood and gesso frame with carved scrolled foliage motifs and bearing a metal name plate below. Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized.