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CORNELIUS VARLEY (1781-1873)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 922 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORNELIUS See also:VARLEY (1781-1873)  , See also:English See also:water-See also:colour painter, a younger See also:brother of See also:John See also:Varley (q.v.), was See also:born at See also:Hackney, See also:London, on the 21st of See also:November 1781 . He was educated by his See also:uncle, a philosophical See also:instrument maker, and under him acquired a knowledge of the natural sciences; but about 1800 he joined his brother in a tour through See also:Wales, and began the study of See also:art . He was soon engaged in teaching See also:drawing . From 1803 till 1859 he was an occasional exhibitor in the Royal See also:Academy; and he also contributed regularly to the displays of the Water-Colour Society, of which, in 1803, he was one of the founders, and of which he continued a member till 1821 . His See also:works consist mainly of carefully finished classical subjects, with See also:architecture and figures . He published a See also:series of etchings of " Boats and other See also:Craft on the See also:River See also:Thames," and during his See also:life as an artist he continued deeply interested in scientific pursuits . For his improvements in the See also:camera lucida, the camera obscura and the See also:microscope he received the See also:Isis See also:gold See also:medal of the Society of Arts; and at the See also:International See also:Exhibition of 1851 he gained a medal for his invention of the graphic See also:telescope . He died at See also:Hampstead on the 2nd of See also:October 1873 .

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