1842
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire is a 1842 watercolor by John Varley, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
You see a watercolour painting of Bolton Abbey in Yorkshire. The story of the abbey is sad: a son drowned there. This painting was made almost 40 years after the artist visited the abbey. The artist was inspired by the story and the place. You can learn more about the artist's style by looking at the work of artist: Varley, John.
John Varley created *Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire* in 1842, nearly four decades after his 1803 visit to the site during a sketching tour. The watercolour depicts the abbey, a subject that attracted artists and writers associated with the Romantic movement due to its association with a local legend in which the benefactor’s son drowned nearby. Varley, a founding member of the Old Watercolour Society established in 1804 to support watercolour artists, was also a significant teacher whose students included several later prominent painters.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Varley (17 August 1778 – 17 November 1842) was an English watercolour painter and astrologer, and a close friend of William Blake.
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