Explore: John Charles Varrall

(1794 - 1855)

Little is known of landscape engraver John Charles Varrall. He was born in Plymouth, Devon, in 1794. He became an engraver of small bookplates, including landscape and architectural views, after works by contemporary artists. Varrall was employed to engrave the works of Thomas Allom, William Henry Bartlett, Henry Gastineau, John Preston Neale and others. He was living with his wife and daughter on Pratt Street, St Pancras, at the time of both the 1841 and 1851 censuses. In 1845 he appeared the Court of Bankruptcy, in Basinghall Street, London.