Frederick Horsman Varley (1881-1969)
- painter, one of the Group of Seven
- born in Sheffield, England
- studied at the Sheffield School of Art and Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
- was convinced to move to Canada in 1912 by an enthusiastic Aurthur Lismer, who had returned briefly to Sheffield to be married
- soon after his arrival in Toronto he landed a job a the design firm Grip Limited
- official "artist overseas" during World War I, painted battlefields and cemeteries
- the somber self-portrait shown above was painted after his return from WWI
- admired for his portraits, such as Vincent Massey (1920)
- during the late 1920s he painted landscapes of the Canadian wilderness
- individualistic in his later works, concentrating on human subjects, in expressionistic scenes and traditional portraits
- head, Department of Drawing and Painting, School of Decorative and Applied Arts, Vancouver (1926-1933)
- considered the bohemian of the group
- traveled to remote areas, sketched in the Arctic and Russia
- lived in Toronto the last 25 years of his life
- Vera (1931, National Gallery, Ottawa ):
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