John Varley, O.W.S. (1778-1842)

Figures and sheep on a lane, by Tal-y-Llyn Lake, near Cader Idris, North Wales

细节

John Varley, O.W.S. (1778-1842)
Figures and sheep on a lane, by Tal-y-Llyn Lake, near Cader Idris, North Wales
signed and dated 'J. Varley 1835' (lower right) and further inscribed 'Tallys Lynn Lake/near Cader Idris/N. Wales/John Varley/1835' (on a fragment of the old mount attached to the backing)
pencil and watercolour, with scratching out
11 x 21 in. (29.3 x 53.3 cm.)

来源

with Michael Bryan, London.

拍品专文

Varley made his first tour of Wales in 1798 or 1799 with the landscape painter George Arnald. This Welsh tour was enormously influential in laying the foundations of Varley's art and providing him with the inspiration and subject matter which he was to draw upon throughout his career.

A considerably later watercolour of 1839 (?) entitled Tal-y-Llyn with Cader Idris in the background is illustrated in C.M. Kauffman, John Varley/1778-1842, London, 1984, p. 167, no. 69.

Another version of the present watercolour measuring 12 x 22 in., is in the Nottingham Castle Museum (aquisition no. 54-33).