The Corfu Lear Exhibition, Spectator Review

"Just here for the Lear"

Thanks to a posting by Chris Holmes (Corfucius), I managed to get a copy of the latest issue of The Spectator, which carries a review of the Corfu Edward Lear Exhibition, which I hope to see this week.

"Edward Lear could hardly have chosen a worse time to live than the Victorian era, or a better place to lurk than this island of Corfu off the north-west tip of Greece. Corfu was (and is) beautiful; a painter’s dream. And now, for those who get the chance to see it, there’s a fine exhibition of Lear’s work on at the Palace of St Michael and St George, at one end of Corfu Town’s esplanade. The show marks the bicentenary of Lear’s birth, and Corfu grandees have made a point of going along to help celebrate."

Thomas Hodgkinson