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Frederick Horsman Varley

Frederick Horsman Varley (1881 - 1969) was active/lived in Ontario / Canada, United Kingdom.  Frederick Varley is known for Landscape, portrait, illustrator, mural.

Born in Sheffield, England, Frederick Varley spent most of his career in Canada where he became a member of the Group of Seven, painters dedicated to that country's native subject matter.

Varley studied at the Sheffield School of Art in England to 1899, and from 1900 to 1902 at the Antwerp Academy in Belgium.  In 1904, he moved to London, where he worked as an illustrator, and from 1909 to 1911, lived again in Sheffield.

The next year, he moved to Toronto, Canada, and worked for a photo-engraving company.  On the staff were artists with whom he formed the Group of Seven including James Edward MacDonald, Arthur Lismer, Frank Carmichael, Frank Johnston, and Tom Thomson.  Together they became part-time landscape painters and shared a mutual philosophy of commitment to subjects that were uniquely Canadian.

Varley enlisted in the military during World War I, served in England, and was an artist for the Canadian War Records Department, and   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1912 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Frederick Horsman Varley available:    Franklin H Carmichael,  James Edward Hervey MacDonald,  Arthur Lismer,  Alfred Joseph Casson,  Alexander Young (AY) Jackson,  Edwin Headley Holgate,  Frank (Franz) Hans Johnston,  Clarence Alphonse Gagnon,  Kathleen Moir Morris,  David Brown Milne,  Lionel LeMoine (LLF or LL) FitzGerald,  Tom Thomson,  James Wilson Morrice,  Lawren Stewart Harris,  Maurice Galbraith Cullen,  John William Beatty,  Henrietta Mabel May,  Emily M Carr,  Marc-Aurele Fortin,  Albert Henry Robinson,  William (Wasy) Kurelek,  Frederick Simpson Coburn,  Alfred Pellan,  Molly Joan Lamb Bobak