Cornelius Varley (1781-1873)
Cornelius Varley (1781-1873)

An old Fountain Head and a Farmhouse at Pepper Hill, Staffordshire, belonging to Sir George Piggott, Bart.

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Cornelius Varley (1781-1873)
An old Fountain Head and a Farmhouse at Pepper Hill, Staffordshire, belonging to Sir George Piggott, Bart.
signed and dated 'Cornelius Varley 1821' (lower right)
oil on canvas, unframed
32 x 40½in. (81.3 x 102.8cm.)
Exhibited
London, Royal Academy, 1821, no. 558 (titled as above).

Lot Essay

Varley worked largely in pencil and watercolour and less frequently in oil. Pevsner describes Pepper Hill as an 'Old house perched on the sandstone cliff. Stone walls below, brick above. A barn nearby. The ornamental fountain head has been removed to Pattishull, Staffordshire.' (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England - Shropshire, London, 1958, p. 226). The caption for a closely related engraving describes Pepper Hill as 'formerly the residence of the Earl of Shrewsbury'.

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