Edwardian English Landscape Watercolor

This is a signed watercolor landscape in a custom oversize frame with a white matt. Using a large frame and matt for smaller paintings gives the ...

This is a signed watercolor landscape in a custom oversize frame with a white matte. Using a large frame and matte for smaller paintings gives th...

A tranquil and peaceful watercolor on paper depicting a landscape with a fortress by English artist John Varley. Circa early 1800s. According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, ""Varley's landscapes are graceful and solemn in feeling, and simple and broad in treatment, being worked with a full brush and pure fresh transparent tints, usually without any admixture of body-colour. Though his works are rather mannered and conventional, they are well considered and excellent in composition. Some of his earlier water-colours, including his ""Views of the Thames,"" were painted upon the spot, and possess greater individuality than his later productions, which are mainly compositions of mountain and lake scenery, produced without direct reference to nature."" An opportunity to own an antique watercolor a well-known English watercolorist. From a private collection. Original gallery tag on verso from Squire Gallery. Dimensions: 14”h x 15.25”w x 1”d (framed). In good vintage condition. John Varley (1778-1842) was an English watercolor painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake. They collaborated in 1819–1820 on the book Visionary Heads, written by Varley and illustrated by Blake. He was the elder brother of a family of artists: Cornelius Varley...

A pair of 19th century English framed watercolor landscapes each with a medieval castle towering a river. The first one depicts a castle illuminated by the sunshine breaking through the foliage on the opposite bank in the foreground. The crenellated towers stand out against an expansive sky reflected in the calm waters beneath. The second watercolor shows another Gothic castle...

Pair of anonymous watercolor landscapes rendered in sepia on paper. England, mid 19th century.

Antique late 19th century watercolor on paper pastoral painting, Wooded landscape with cows drinking from a stream. Unsigned. Unframed, edge wear, age toning.