GLOVER, JOHN (1767-1849)
$3,250.00Price
"Study For Mt. Wellington, Hobart" (c.1830)
watercolour
12 x 17cm
unsigned
*details on verso
*private collection, Sydney
John Glover is one of Australia’s most celebrated colonial landscape painters. In England, he was a highly successful watercolourist and painter of landscapes in the tradition of French artist Claude Lorrain. Arriving in Australia in 1831, Glover adapted his picturesque style and luminous technique to his new surrounds, creating naturalistic and atmospheric paintings of Australian nature, settler life and Aboriginal cultur