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John Glover was born on February 18th, 1767 at Houghton-on-the-Hill, near Leicester, England. He became a landscape artist of high repute and a member of the British Society of Painters in Water colours of which he was elected President in 1807. He first exhibited in oils in 1799 at The Royal Academy, London, and had his first major success as a painter in that medium. Continuing to exhibit at The Royal Academy, he sold his view of Durham Cathedral in 1812 for 500 guineas. He exhibited in Paris in 1814 and was presented with a gold medal by Louis XVIII. In 1820 he opened his own very successful gallery at 16 Old Bond Street London. Three of Glover's sons left England for Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania], arriving in 1829. Two years later John Glover and his wife Sarah joined them, arriving at the River Tamar near Launceston on the artist's birthday, February 18th, 1831. He was allocated land at Mill's Plains, Ben Lomond [Deddington] where he built his home. The property which he named "Patterdale" is approximately 20km from Evandale. There he painted wonderful Tasmanian scenes of his newly discovered "Arcadian" landscapes. In 1835 he sent works to London for an exhibition depicting the scenery and customs of the inhabitants of Van Diemen's Land. In November 2001 one of these paintings "Mount Wellington and Hobart Town with Natives Dancing and Bathing" sold for more than $1.5 million. His oil paintings are on display at the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart and other major Australian and British art galleries and the Louvre in Paris. John Glover died at "Patterdale" on December 9th, 1849 and is interred in a vault at Nile Chapel, Deddington. |