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CORNELIUS VARLEY (BRITISH 1781-1873) 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.