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Artist

John Varley, I (1778-1842)

Collection

Guy Peppiatt Fine Art

Description

Watercolour over pencil heightened with bodycolour and stopping out. This is a distant view of Sintra which stands on the coast west of Lisbon. The two conical towers are of the Palacio Nacional de Sintra, the ancestral seat of the House of Avis. They were added to the original palace in the eighteenth century. This may be the view of Sintra exhibited at the Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1841 as no.322. Varley never left the British Isles but exhibited a number of European views based on the drawings of amateur artists or soldiers in this case a 'Colonel Landman'. This is probably Colonel George Landmann (1779-1854) who served in Spain and Portugal during the Peninsula War. In 1818 he published 'Historical, Military, and Picturesque Observations in Portugal.'

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Location

Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal

Country

Portugal