John Varley
(1778–1842) British artist (1778–1842)
John Varley (United Kingdom, 1778–1842) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, John Varley belongs to the chapter ‘Romanticism’ in this site’s history of art.
John Varley was born in Hackney and died in Oxford Street. John Varley studied under Joseph Charles Barrow. John Varley became a member of Royal Watercolour Society. The students included John Linnell and George Fennell Robson.
The catalogue has 151 works by John Varley with free images. The dated works span the years 1800–1842. Works by John Varley are held by several collections, among them Yale Center for British Art, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums collections, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and drawings in the National Gallery of Art.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Wilhelmina Krafft, Joseph Denis Odevaere, and Marie-Éléonore Godefroid.