EDGAR JOHN VARLEY 1839-1888 Watercolour "River Ouse and York Minster"

Edgar John Varley's spectacular Watercolour of his grandfathers famous work currently in the British Museum - York Minster; River Ouse in foreground with city and smoke rising in distance, whole-length of minster against evening skyline, wood enclosed by wall to right

Condition: Image: Good for age. Frame: Some knocks, dents and scuffs

Edgar John Varley was the son of Charles Smith Varley (1811-1888), a watercolourist who often exhibited in London. Varley was raised in an environment of artistic nourishment. Not only was his father an artist but his grandfather was the esteemed watercolourist John Varley (1778-1842). He had been instrumental in the rise of watercolour painting as a much-practised and legitimate form of landscape painting.