VIEW OF SNOWDON AND CAPEL CURIG, NORTH WALES
signed and dated Cornelius Varley 1866 lower left
watercolour on paper
17.5 x 25cm; 6 3/4 x 9 3/4in
41.5 x 48cm; 16 1/4 x 19in (framed)

Property from a Private Collection

Provenance
Spink-Leger, London
Purchased from the above by the present owners in March 2000

Exhibited
London, Spink-Leger, Feeling through the eye, 2000, no. 93

Initially educated by his uncle in the natural sciences, Cornelius Varley began to develop as an artist around 1800, when he accompanied his older brother, watercolourist John Varley (1778-1842), on a tour of Wales. During his career he depicted many Welsh landscapes such as this one as well as classical scenes and views of the Thames. Varley was also an inventor of scientific instruments, notably the graphic telescope which he exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851.