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- John Varley
- Also known as
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John Varley
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primary name: Varley, John
- Details
- individual; painter/draughtsman; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1778-1842
- Address
- 2 Harris Place, Pantheon, Oxford Street (1801)
15 Broad Street, Golden Square, London (1809)
44 Conduit Street, Bond Street, London (1815) (also given as 44 Conduit Street, Hanover Square)
3 Elkins Row, Bayswater, London (1822)
- Biography
- Watercolourist and drawing master and author of several drawing and watercolour manuals; brother of Cornelius Varley (q.v.).
- Bibliography
- A. Bury, 'John Varley of the Old Society', 1946
P. Jenkins, '"Cooking Nature", John Varley's watercolour techniques', Eton Collections Review, No. 4, Summer 2010, pp. 42-9
C. M. Kauffmann, 'John Varley, 1778–1842', V&A, 1984 and entry in Oxford DNB
A. Lyles, ‘John Varley's early work’, Old Water-Colour Society's Club, 59 (1984), 1–22 ; A. Lyles, ‘John Varley's Thames’, Old Water-Colour Society's Club, 63 (1994), 1–37; A. Lyles, ‘John Varley: a catalogue of his watercolours and drawings in the British Museum’, MA diss., Courtauld Inst., 1980