Oval Landscape Composition

£550

Category

Landscapes

Landscapes Rural

Artist

John Varley OWS

Reference

1164

Made in grey/brown and pink washes, this is a particularly large and splendidly freely executed example of the broad wash compositions made by Varley in the late 1830s. Other oval watercolours by Varley survive, and the composition seems well suited to the format, suggesting the artist painted it as an oval. The provenance indicates this has for long been a well-regarded work.

Dimensions:

Height 23 cm / 9 "

Width 31 cm / 12 "

Framed height 42 cm / 16 "

Framed width 49 cm / 19 ¹⁄₂"

Year

c.1835-40

Medium

Watercolour

Signed

Collector's stamp of Sir John and Lady Witt Collection on Albany Gallery label on backboard, along with his number, 1767.

Provenance

By descent to Herbert Varley, grandson of the artist (d. 1903); with Albany Gallery, London; Sir John and Lady Witt Collection, sold at their sale, Sotheby's 19 February 1987, lot. 83.