John I Varley

J Varley (1778-1842) - classical landscape with figure, signed watercolour, label on verso "Fine Art Society" , 9 x 14" Estimate £ 500-800 Mounted under glass, gilt frame, not been taken out of frame, no damage found, no tears or damage , some slight discolouration. Size of picture given, this is not the size of frame.

Lot Description John Varley, O.W.S. (London 1778-1842) Fifty-four portrait drawings including: John Girtin (b. 1773); Probably Thomas Webster (1800-1886) (illustrated); Delvalle Lowry (1762-1825); Mrs Havell; Mr Hewlett (1768-1826); Mr Wilson Lowry; Mr Blane; Henry Ziegler (1798-1874); Mr Mason; Mr Webster; Mr Sheffield; Colonel Landman; John Fleetwood and others one with inscription 'Girtin's Brother' (lower right), some inscribed with the sitter's names and further inscribed and variously dated 1796 to 1812 pencil 8½ x 6 in. (21.6 x 15.2 cm.); and smaller; three framed, fifty-one unframed (54) Lot Condition Report I confirm that I have read this Important Notice and agree to its terms. View Condition Report Provenance (1) with Agnew's, London, 2000, no. 43. View Lot Notes › The fifty-one unframed drawings were part of a disbound album. Two different kinds of instrument were used by John and Cornelius Varley, in the production of landscape drawings and portraits. The first was a camera lucida, patented in 1806 by William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828). The second instrument was created by Cornelius Varley himself and patented in June 1811 as Varley's Patent Graphic Telescope. One of the present portraits is inscribed 'Done in the Camera Lucida/June 16. 1810/by J. Varley' (no. 20); another, of Mr Holford of Hampstead, is inscribed 'Sketched with the Graphic Telescope June 3rd 1812' (no. 9). The roll call of sitters gives us an interesting insight into Varley's social circle. On his third visit to Wales in 1802 John Varley was accompanied by Cornelius and the architect Thomas Webster. It was on this trip that Varley met Wilson Lowry, scientist and engraver, and his wife. Lowry's daughter Delvalle became John Varley's second wife in 1825. Ziegler was a pupil of John Varley, while Hewlett was a very successful flower painter and drawing master in Bath.

JOHN VARLEY (1778-1842) "Lake landscape with figure seated on path in foreground, cattle watering in background,a church in the distance", watercolour, signed and dated "1839" bottom right, 17.5 cm x 25 cm, and a companion "Figure in punt in foreground, cattle by path / water's edge in background with church in distance", watercolour, signed and dated "1839" bottom right, 17.5 cm x 25 cm (2) (ONE ILLUSTRATED)

John Varley, O.W.S. (1778-1842) St. Nicholas's Church, Great Bookham, Surrey pencil and watercolour 12¼ x 10 in. (31.1 x 25.4 cm.) Major A.T. Philipson, M.B.E., Ditchling, Sussex. with Michael Spratt, Guildford, Surrey. Varley stayed with Dr. Thomas Monro at his house at Fetcham in 1800 and made a number of studies in this area, most notably of Polesdon Lacey, near Bookham.

John Varley (British, 1778-1842) Romantic Landscape with Figure by a Plinth; and Figure by a Lake watercolour (two) h:9 w:13 cm Provenance: Agnew's, London. From the collection of Anthony Jennings. Estimate £600-800 Plinth - very dark and with loss of colour. 9 x 13cm. Figure by a Lake - 10 x 14cm