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VARLEY, JOHN (1778-1842) , English water-colour painter, was born at Hackney, London, on the 17th of August 1778. His father, a man of scientific attainments and tutor in the family of Lord Stanhope, discouraged his leanings towards art, and placed him under a silversmith. But on his parent's death Varley escaped from this uncongenial employment, and, after working with a portrait painter, engaged himself at the age of sixteen to an architectural draughtsman, who took him on a provincial tour to sketch the principal buildings in the towns they visited. His spare hours were employed in sketching from nature, and in the evenings he was permitted, like Turner
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Varley's landscapes are graceful and solemn in feeling, and simple aad broad in treatment, being worked with a full brush and pure fresh transparent tints, usually without any admixture of body
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