Relocation to Rome
Poet involved
What happened
Seeking a warmer climate to ease his chronic bronchitis and asthma, Edward Lear relocated to Rome, Italy, where he lived and worked for roughly a decade. He supported himself by selling landscape drawings and paintings to English visitors on the Grand Tour, while exploring the surrounding Roman Campagna. Rome became his base for extensive sketching expeditions across Italy.
Literary impact
Lear's decade in Rome deepened his identity as a landscape artist and lifelong expatriate, establishing the pattern of foreign residence and travel that would later generate the illustrated travel journals accompanying his poetic career.
Source: Wikipedia
