John (1767) Glover Paintings & Artwork for Sale | John (1767) Glover Art Value Price Guide

Nov. 25, 2024
Follower of John GLOVER (1767–1849) Second quarter 19th century An English wooded landscape with figures and cattle crossing a river...
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Follower of John GLOVER (1767–1849) Second quarter 19th century An English wooded landscape with figures and cattle crossing a river Oil on canvas Unsigned 86 x 125cm
Leonard Joel
Nov. 20, 2024
John Glover, British 1767-1849- Gold Rill Beck, Ullswater; oil on canvas, 71.5 x 90.5 cm. Pro
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
John Glover, British 1767-1849- Gold Rill Beck, Ullswater; pencil and oil on canvas, 71.5 x 90.5 cm. Provenance: The Property of the Late Reverend John Watson. Note: John Glover studied under William Payne (1755/60-c.1830) and began showcasing his oil paintings at the Royal Academy in 1795, where his works garnered positive attention, often being compared favourably to those of J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). In his pursuit of innovative methods to depict light and atmosphere, Glover pioneered a technique involving a split brush for painting foliage, a style evident in the trees and landscape of this current work. The picturesque composition, the dappled treatment of the middle ground and rendering of foliage are all typical of Glover. Glover frequently visited the Lake District, embarking on sketching and painting tours to Cumberland and Westmoreland from 1793. The farm he rented at Blowick, along with the expanse of Ullswater and its winding tributary, Gold Rill Beck, are prominently featured in many of his paintings and drawings. An example depicting this landscape was exhibited with the Society of Painters in Water Colours (SPWC) in 1806. Glover is also known to have rendered this composition in watercolour; an example was presented at Bonhams Australia, 26 June 2019 (lot 76). Glover travelled to Australia in 1831, at the age of 64, becoming one of the most influential and celebrated landscape painters of the country. The attribution of the present work to John Glover was confirmed by the late David Hansen through private communication in November 2023.
Roseberys
Oct. 02, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (BRITISH 1767-1849)
Est: £500 - £700
JOHN GLOVER (BRITISH 1767-1849) LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL inscribed Landaff lower right the reverse with two studies one of the same subject and one of Caerphilly Castle pen and ink and watercolour 16.5 x 25cm; 6 1/2 x 9 3/4in together with two further drawings, a View of Hampstead, (a leaf from a sketchbook), and Figures and cattle by a lake, by the same hand various sizes, all unframed (3)
Olympia Auctions
Sep. 11, 2024
Circle of John Glover RBA (English, 1767-1849)
Est: £40 - £60
Circle of John Glover RBA (English, 1767-1849) Figures with a horse crossing a bridge, pencil and watercolour, unsigned, early 19th century, framed, 35.6 x 45cm.
Martel Maides
Aug. 03, 2024
19TH C ENGLISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING BY JOHN GLOVER
Est: $100 - $150
Oil on canvas painting by John Glover, 1767 to 1849, an English-born artist considered the father of Australian landscape painting. The artwork depicts a lake panorama with staffage and mountains in the background. Undated, unsigned. Presumably pre-Austrailian period, before 1831. Golden frame with name plaque. Provenance: Matthews Gallery, 1966. Collectible European Fine Art.
Antique Arena Inc
Jul. 28, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) "THE BRISTOL CHANNEL FROM HILLS ABOVE CHEPSTOW C 1820"
Est: $10,000 - $20,000
superb early work on canvas in an original gilt frame with certificate and valuation from ALLARTS services 31.4cm x 45cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Jun. 26, 2024
JOHN GLOVER - FROM AN ITALIAN SKETCHBOOK - INK AND WASH
Est: $500 - $800
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) FROM AN ITALIAN SKETCHBOOK Inscribed verso, Book no. 87, 1818 Ink and wash 8 x 18cm Estimate $500/800 AUD
GFL Fine Art
Jun. 25, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (British 1767-1849), 'Italianate Landscape', watercolour, 9.5 x 14 cm, framed 31 x 34 cm. Label verso for John Spink Fin.
Est: $600 - $800
JOHN GLOVER (British 1767-1849), 'Italianate Landscape', watercolour, 9.5 x 14 cm, framed 31 x 34 cm. Label verso for John Spink Fine English Watercolours.
Raffan Kelaher & Thomas
Jun. 16, 2024
John Glover, (British, Australian 1767-1849), Sketches of rowing boats, Pencil
Est: -
John Glover (British, Australian, 1767-1849) Sketches of rowing boats Pencil John Glover (British, 1767-1849) Sketches of rowing boats Pencil 17 x 12cm Page from a sketchbook numbered 44 lower left.
Bargain Hunt Auctions
Jun. 02, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (ENGLISH/AUSTRALIAN 1767-1849) "COWS GRAZING BY THE BRIDGE,ULLSWATER ENGLAND C 1820"
Est: $3,000 - $6,000
A superb large early English work depicting a typical Cumbrian,Lakes District Landscape 50cm x 60cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
May. 22, 2024
Circle of John Glover RBA (English, 1767-1849)
Est: £50 - £70
Circle of John Glover RBA (English, 1767-1849) Figures with a horse crossing a bridge, pencil and watercolour, unsigned, early 19th century, framed, 14 x 17¾in. (35.6 x 45cm.).
Martel Maides
Apr. 18, 2024
ATT. JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849). A LARGE OIL ON CANVAS
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
ATT. JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849). A LARGE OIL ON CANVAS ATT. JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849). A LARGE OIL ON CANVAS. River landscape with herded cattle and bridges, unsigned - mounted in a gilt-swept frame. (70cm high, 90cm wide)
Hutchinson Scott Limited
Mar. 27, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849), Mill on the Tiber (After Claude) c1840
Est: $90,000 - $120,000
PROPERTY FORMERLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JOHN BETTS, NEW SOUTH WALES JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) Mill on the Tiber (After Claude) c1840 oil on canvas 76.0 x 113.0 cm; 93.5 x 129.5 cm (framed)
Menzies
Feb. 14, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849), English Landscape, no.101 (Sketchbook), ink and wash on paper (unframed), 10 x 16.5 cm, unsigned, inscribed '101' lower left
Est: $600 - $800
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) English Landscape, no.101 (Sketchbook) ink and wash on paper (unframed) 10 x 16.5 cm unsigned, inscribed '101' lower left
Lawsons
Jan. 31, 2024
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) English Landscape, no.101 (Sketchbook) ink and wash on paper (unframed) 10 x 16.5 cm unsigned, inscribed '...
Est: $600 - $800
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) English Landscape, no.101 (Sketchbook) ink and wash on paper (unframed) 10 x 16.5 cm unsigned, inscribed ''101'' lower left
Lawsons
Jan. 20, 2024
John GLOVER (1767-1849), zugeschrieben
Est: CHF150 - CHF300
John GLOVER (1767-1849), zugeschrieben Szene am Strand Aquarell auf Papier auf Karton, auf Karton später zugeschrieben 6,5 x 11 cm, Rahmen: 20 x 24,5 cm John GLOVER (1767-1849),attributed to Scene at the beach Watercolor on paper on cardboard, later attributed to cardboard 6.5 x 11 cm, frame: 20 x 24.5 cm
Galerie Moenius
Jan. 01, 2024
John Glover (English, 1767-1849)
Est: $200 - $400
John Glover (English, 1767-1849), "The Edge of a Field" and "Lake District". Ink and wash (2). Sight 2 1/2" x 7", overall 10" x 14 1/2", the other 3 1/4" x 6", overall 12" x 14". Provenance: The Edward Herrmann Estate, Salisbury Connecticut.
Copake Auction Inc.
Dec. 14, 2023
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) English Landscape, no.101 (Sketchbook) ink and wash on paper (unframed) 10 x 16.5 cm unsigned, inscribed '...
Est: $800 - $1,200
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) English Landscape, no.101 (Sketchbook) ink and wash on paper (unframed) 10 x 16.5 cm unsigned, inscribed '101' lower left
Lawsons
Nov. 22, 2023
JOHN GLOVER, STUDY OF OAK TREES, C.1840
Est: $80,000 - $100,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) STUDY OF OAK TREES, c.1840 oil and collage on canvas 75.0 x 112.0 cm bears inscription on plaque: STUDY OF OAK TREES / John Glover / lent by Mr G. R. Chapman frame: William Wilson, Launceston PROVENANCE Thomas and Catherine Chapman, Sunnyside, New Town, Hobart Thence by descent George S. Chapman, Hobart, acquired in 1884 Thence by descent George R. Chapman, Hobart Thence by descent G. Robin Chapman, Hobart Thence by descent Geoff Chapman, Hobart Thence by descent Peter Chapman, Hobart Estate of the above ESSAY This oil painting was produced in the later years of John Glover’s life, following his long and successful career as a landscape artist and teacher in England and his emigration to Van Diemen’s Land in 1831, aged sixty-four. There he had turned his attention to interpreting the Australian bush, both as it had been managed by the Aboriginal custodians, and as it was being transformed by British newcomers for pastoral and agricultural purposes. Throughout these years he also continued to paint far-distant scenes, based on recollections of his travels throughout Britain and Europe, prompted by earlier sketches contained in the 104 small sketchbooks that he had brought with him.1 This tranquil view, possibly Italian, along a country road is interrupted by a steep bank of trees of varying ages and forms. Framed by overhanging branches, a woman and child walk in shadow, soon to emerge towards us into open land and sunshine. Despite the posthumous title Study of oak trees, c.1840 the landscape have recently been revealed after being hidden for decades by layers of varnish. It now glows in the manner Glover originally intended. This painting has a direct provenance from Thomas Chapman and his wife, who arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in late 1841. This is around the date this painting was created although it is unknown when it entered their collection. A merchant by trade and an opponent of transportation, Chapman became a politician and subsequently the fifth Premier of Tasmania (1861–63). Study of oak trees passed down the family to Peter Chapman, a respected scholar and teacher of Tasmanian and Australian history who died earlier this year. His numerous publications included an article on ‘John Glover’s migration to Tasmania’.3 The painting remains in its original William Wilson frame. Wilson was a Launceston-based ‘Carver & Gilder, Looking Glass, Picture Frame and Composition Ornament Manufacturer, Upholsterer’4 and ‘manufacturer of every description of Ornamental Furniture’, who arrived in the colony in 1842. Less well-known than his Hobart counterpart Robin Hood, Wilson created elegant frames for Glover, Frederick Strange and Robert Dowling among others.5 1. 'Hill and I were the whole of the evening looking over the two books he [Glover] had placed before us. He told us that he had 104 of such…’ G.T.W.B. Boyes (ed. Peter Chapman), The Diaries and Letters of G. T. W. B. Boyes: Volume 1 1820-1832, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985, pp. 421 – 22 2. Experts John McPhee and David Hansen have not previously seen collage used. The quality of the painted figures suggests that these are by Glover. 3. Chapman, P., ‘John Glover’s migration to Tasmania’, The Art Bulletin of Tasmania, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1985, pp. 22 – 33 4. See Robyn Lake and Therese Mulford, ‘William Wilson: Rediscovered Tasmanian Frame maker’, Australiana, vol. 23, no. 1, Feb. 2001. pp. 4 – 11 5. The name plate on the frame indicates that this work was included in a loan exhibition when owned by George R. or G. Robin Chapman. ALISA BUNBURY
Deutscher and Hackett
Oct. 08, 2023
GLOVER John (1767-1849), 'Near Ullswater,' c.1820., Ink & Wash, 20x28.5cm
Est: $800 - $1,200
GLOVER, John (1767-1849) 'Near Ullswater,' c.1820. Unsigned. Title and attribution in later hand verso. Ink & Wash 20x28.5cm
Davidson Auctions
Sep. 10, 2023
*JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 [ATTRIBUTED] "AN EXTENSIVE VIEW, LAKE DISTRICT" WATERCOLOUR , IMAGE 24.3X34CMS, FRAMED. PRIVATE COLLECTION.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
*JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 [attributed] "An Extensive View, Lake District" watercolour , image 24.3x34cms, framed. Private Collection.
WA Art Auctions
Sep. 10, 2023
*JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 "ULLSWATER, LAKE DISTRICT" WATERCOLOUR IN SEPIA, SIGNED LOWER LEFT, IMAGE 19X28CMS, FRAMED. PRIVATE COLLECTION.
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
*JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 "Ullswater, Lake District" watercolour in sepia, signed lower left, image 19x28cms, framed. Private Collection.
WA Art Auctions
Aug. 23, 2023
JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 A Very Ancient Ruined Chapel, Arran in the Distance (1825) oil on canvas 76 x 115.5 cm
Est: $100,000 - $150,000
JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 A Very Ancient Ruined Chapel, Arran in the Distance (1825) oil on canvas 76 x 115.5 cm PROVENANCE John Glover, England Private Collection Private Collection, Queensland Private Collection, Melbourne Leo Schofield, Sydney Private Collection, New South Wales EXHIBITED Society of British Artists, London, 1826 A catalogue of all the finished drawings in water colours of Mr John Glover, Esq …, also, the remainder of his Paintings in oil, Mr Stanley's Rooms, 21 Old Bond Street, London, 18 May 1830 John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 28 November 2003 - 1 February 2004; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 19 February - 12 April 2004; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 24 April - 18 July 2004; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 13 August - 3 October 2004, no. 49, illustrated LITERATURE David Hansen, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, Sydney and Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2003, pp. 83 (illustrated), 181 (illustrated)
Smith & Singer
Aug. 04, 2023
Australian Art
Est: $100 - $120
4 Australian Art Books. 1) Justin O'Brien - Image and Icon by Christine France. Published by Craftsman House 1987 1st Ed. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Good copy; 2) John Glover 1767-1849. October 1986 at Rex Irwin Art Dealer Catalogue. Paperback. Previous owner's name on front end paper else a good copy; 3) Lloyd Rees by Renee Free. Lansdowne Australian Art Library 1979. Paperback. Previous owner's name on front end paper else a good copy; 4) The Colonial Image - Australian Painting 1800-1880 by Tim Bonyhady. Published by Ellsyd Press 1987 1st Ed. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Very good copy.
Sydney Rare Book Auctions
Jul. 23, 2023
John Glover c1829 - "A View to Wales"
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
John Glover c1829 - "A View to Wales" John Glover RBA (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen's Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting. This painting was painted in the last few years he was in England and he moved to Tasmania in 1831. It is not signed to the front but it is marked to the back according to the Gallery Owner "Inscribed to Verso". It has a very strong Sepia Tint to it and is beautiful condition. It has been gallery framed. The actual art is 425mm wide by 265mm high. Yes folks this is unreserved... it must go to clear Probate... $500 Buck start !!
Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers
Jul. 23, 2023
John Glover (1767-1849) - Rural Scene Watercolour
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
John Glover (1767-1849) - Rural Scene Watercolour John Glover RBA (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen's Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting. His Works are very sought after and many hang in the National Gallery. Here is an opportunity to pick one up that doesnt come along very often. This is unsigned (as many of his works are) but attributed to John Glover. It is c1800, and gallery framed. The frame measures 54cm by 48cm high. This piece came from our Yester Grange Art Gallery, and must be cleared for probate. It is unreserved once the start price of $500 is bid
Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers
Jun. 30, 2023
John Glover c1829 - "A View to Wales"
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
John Glover c1829 - "A View to Wales" John Glover RBA (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen's Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting. This painting was painted in the last few years he was in England and he moved to Tasmania in 1831. It is not signed to the front but it is marked to the back according to the Gallery Owner "Inscribed to Verso". It has a very strong Sepia Tint to it and is beautiful condition. It has been gallery framed. The actual art is 425mm wide by 265mm high. Yes folks this is unreserved... it must go to clear Probate... $100 Buck start !!
Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers
Jun. 30, 2023
John Glover (1767-1849) - Rural Scene Watercolour
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
John Glover (1767-1849) - Rural Scene Watercolour John Glover RBA (18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849) was an English-born artist. In later life he migrated to Van Diemen's Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period. He has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting. His Works are very sought after and many hang in the National Gallery. Here is an opportunity to pick one up that doesnt come along very often. This is unsigned (as many of his works are) but attributed to John Glover. It is c1800, and gallery framed. The frame measures 54cm by 48cm high. This piece came from our Yester grange Art Gallery, and must be cleared for probate. It is unreserved!
Danielle Elizabeth Antique & Estate Auctioneers
May. 23, 2023
JOHN GLOVER - SKETCH FROM AN ITALIAN SKETCHBOOK - INK AND WASH
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) SKETCH FROM AN ITALIAN SKETCHBOOK Inscribed lower left, inscribed "Sketch from European (Italian) Sketch Book no. 87, 1818 verso Ink and wash 8.5 x 17.5cm Estimate $2,000/3,000 AUD
GFL Fine Art
May. 13, 2023
*JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 [ATTRIBUTED] "DUMBARTON CASTLE, SCOTLAND" WATERCOLOUR, 32.4X45.7CMS, INSCIBED, FRAMED.
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
JOHN GLOVER 1767-1849 [attributed] "Dumbarton Castle, Scotland" C1812, watercolour, inscibed on the mount and verso, 32.4x45.7cms, condition fine, framed. Provenance: Collection of James S Dearden, Master of John Ruskin's Guild of St. George & founder of the Ruskin Association. Within the group of shipping is Britains first steam powered boat, the "Comet", built on the Clyde in 1812.
WA Art Auctions
May. 03, 2023
JOHN GLOVER, EVENING ON THE THAMES, 1808
Est: $25,000 - $35,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) EVENING ON THE THAMES, 1808 watercolour on paper 73.0 x 110.0 cm signed and dated lower left: J. Glover 1808 PROVENANCE Private collection Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 20 April 1999, lot 141 (as ‘On the Thames’) Private collection, Melbourne EXHIBITED John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 28 November 2003 – 1 February 2004; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 10 February – 12 April 2004; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 24 April – 18 July 2004; National Gallery of Victoria, 13 August – 3 October 2004, cat. 28 (as ‘The Thames near St. Pauls’ Cathedral’) LITERATURE Hansen, D., John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2003, cat. 28, pp. 156, 157 (illus., as ‘The Thames near St. Pauls’ Cathedral’) ESSAY John Glover is widely recognised and much admired as one of the most significant landscape artists painting in the Australian colonies in the nineteenth century. His immigration to Van Diemen’s Land at the age of sixty-three is often recounted, yet comparatively little attention is paid to his long and successful career in England as an artist, exhibitor, teacher and contemporary of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner. In both England and Australia, Glover focused principally on picturesque landscapes and verdant rural surroundings, but he painted the occasional cityscape, as with this large and luminous watercolour of the Thames in 1808. Glover associated with artistic and literary circles and is known to be a close reader of poetry; early sketchbook pages include many quotes and verses. William Wordsworth was one poet whom he read, and this tranquil scene corresponds closely with his sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802, which was first published in 1807. Earth has not any thing to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! While Wordsworth is describing the calm of early morning, Glover has positioned himself on London Bridge, looking towards Blackfriars Bridge, and is thus facing west, into a setting, rather than rising sun. The crowded port of London lies downstream, east of this view. Here we see only a small number of water craft, mostly moored at the wharves, the river workers ending their day’s toil. This view harks to a pictorial device used extensively by the French artist Claude Lorrain (1600 – 1682), looking across a seaport towards a low sun, and to the reflections and shadows cast upon the waters.1 Claude had many British imitators; Glover was not the only one to be known, but may be the best remembered, widely dubbed as the ‘the English Claude’. In this expansive scene Glover’s view is not framed, as so often, by trees or geological features but rather is punctuated by the imposing and distinctive dome of St Pauls Cathedral on the right, and Watt’s shot tower, for bullet manufacturing, on the left, built less than twenty years earlier and the cutting edge of military technology.2 Here then, we see both the power of religion and of industrial and military might, at the heart of a metropolis immersed in the long Napoleonic war, yet simultaneously expanding its imperial control around the globe. Both London and Blackfriars bridges have since been rebuilt; railway, road and walking bridges now interrupt this view, including the Millennium Bridge which leads to Bankside, the (reconstructed) Globe Theatre and Tate Modern.3 1. See for example, Glover’s Conway Castle, 1796, in Hansen, D., John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2004, cat. no. 8, p. 140. 2. Glover appears to position the shot tower before Blackfriars Bridge; other prints firmly locate it west of the bridge. For example, see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-1113-5853 3. The National Gallery of Victoria holds Glover’s Sketchbook 72, which includes c. 1808 – 09 sketches of the Thames (NGV 1932-4) ALISA BUNBURY
Deutscher and Hackett
Apr. 18, 2023
Attributed to John Glover OWS (British, 1767-1849) Lake at Great Barr 34 1/2 x 59 5/8in (88.5 x 149cm)
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Attributed to John Glover OWS (British, 1767-1849) Lake at Great Barr oil on canvas 34 1/2 x 59 5/8in (88.5 x 149cm)
Bonhams
Mar. 29, 2023
JOHN GLOVER, OWS, BRITISH 1767-1849- CATTLE WATERING IN A RIVER, NORTH WALES; PENCIL AND GREY W
Est: £200 - £300
John Glover, OWS, British 1767-1849- Cattle watering in a river, North Wales; pencil and grey wash on paper, 8.5 x 16.5 cm. Provenance: with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London [no.20933]. Private Collection, UK. Note: The son of a Leicestershire farmer, Glover was appointed writing master at a school in Westmorland in 1786, and eight years later became drawing master in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He was a pupil of William Payne (1760-1830), and in 1795 began exhibiting oil paintings at the Royal Academy, which were favourably received compared to those of Turner, much to the irritation of John Constable. A founding member of the Old Water-Colour Society, Glover exhibited regularly before he emigrated to Tasmania in 1831, where he came to be known as the father of Australian landscape painting. There are several known drawings and paintings that Glover made in and around North Wales and the present work is a particularly fine example of the subject.
Roseberys
Mar. 19, 2023
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) "KENILWORTH"
Est: $250 - $700
Original pencil drawing Titled lower right (Ex.Colville Auctions Tasmania) 10.5cm x 17.5cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Jan. 19, 2023
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Moonlight Rider (Bridge near Dunkeld, Pertyshire), c.1800 oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm (frame: 90 x 120 x 11 c...
Est: $30,000 - $50,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Moonlight Rider (Bridge near Dunkeld, Pertyshire), c.1800 oil on canvas 60 x 90 cm (frame: 90 x 120 x 11 cm) unsigned
Lawsons
Dec. 05, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) A stone bridge across a river, a house on a hillside beyond Red-brown ink and wash over pencil, on wove paper
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) A stone bridge across a river, a house on a hillside beyond Red-brown ink and wash over pencil, on wove paper 20 x 31.5cm
Leonard Joel
Dec. 01, 2022
JOHN RICHARDSON GLOVER, SKETCHBOOK OF VIEWS IN ITALY, C.1849
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
JOHN RICHARDSON GLOVER (1790 - 1868) SKETCHBOOK OF VIEWS IN ITALY, c.1849 bound sketchbook with 39 sketches pencil, pen, ink and wash on paper 12.0 x 19.0 cm (sheet, each) 13.5 x 19.5 cm (book) 34 sketches are numbered and inscribed with title PROVENANCE Private collection, Tasmania, acquired c.1850s Thence by descent Private collection, Tasmania EXHIBITED on short term loan to Queen Victoria Museum Launceston, Tasmania, for the purposes of research, 1977 on short term loan to the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, for the purposes of research, 1981 – 82 on short term loan to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, for the purposes of research, 2000 RELATED WORK John Glover, ( Sketchbook no. 87: Italy), 1818, pencil, pen, ink and wash, 18.1 x 11.8 cm, in the collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, illus. in Hansen, D., John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2003, p. 253 We are grateful to Jane Stewart, Principal Curator of Art for the Tasmanian Museum and Gallery, for her assistance with this catalogue essay. ESSAY When the eminent landscape artist John Glover emigrated from England to Van Diemen’s Land, he was accompanied by his wife and eldest son, John Richardson Glover.1 He was sixty-four; John Richardson forty-one. Arriving in Hobart Town in April 1831, they were reunited with his three other sons, who had begun farming on palawa land two years earlier. In 1832 John was granted land by the Nile River in northern Tasmania where they built their house Patterdale. Here he re-established his painting practice, ably supported by John Richardson as studio assistant and farmer. As we know well, John became Tasmania’s most renowned colonial landscape artist. An art teacher in England, John Richardson’s own artistic output in Van Diemen’s Land was limited, and he is best known now for pen and wash drawings recording local buildings and letters describing of their life and activities, significant documents about colonial Tasmanian settlement. This small sketchbook draws upon the talents and activities of both artists. It is one of the extant examples showing John Richardson’s close artistic relationship with his father, and the vital role that sketching, copying and re-using earlier visual records played before the development of photography. The book contains thirty-nine (previously forty-four) small monochromatic landscapes – the features outlined in pen and ink and enhanced with even tonal washes, which evoke the atmosphere and luminosity of the Italian vistas depicted. A hand-written index, titled Views in Italy, provides locations for the topographical vistas: St Peter’s in Rome, Lake Nemi, the Taro River, Suza and so on.2 Yet John Richardson is not known to have visited Italy. Instead, the numbers at the lower left of each drawing correspond with sketches in one of the 104 sketchbooks John had brought with him to Van Diemen’s Land. John is known to have been an inveterate sketcher and traveller, often fitting multiple sketches per page. His pupil Edward Price wrote: ‘His knowledge was almost entirely derived from the Study of Nature and not from Works of Art. His numerous Sketchbooks are full of Indian Ink drawings made at all hours… Nothing escaped his observation and he never lost an opportunity of noting down anything that was worth remembering.’3 During 1818 John had travelled to Italy, seeing in the flesh picturesque views and edifices that he would have previously only studied in engravings and other tourists’ art. His only surviving Italian sketchbook, Sketchbook 87, is held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart and records some of the evocative landscapes, churches and Roman ruins that he had seen. It is well known that John called upon his sketchbooks throughout his life: in 1835 at Patterdale, for example, he painted My last view of Italy, looking from the Alps over Suza (Art Gallery of New South Wales). Upon John’s death in 1849, his sketchbooks were distributed between his three surviving sons. Sketchbook 87 was given to John Richardson, and he selected forty-four views to copy for his, or another’s, further use, possibly before sale.4 A Whatman watermark, dated 1849, shows that the sketchbook was made no earlier than the year of John’s death. 1. Contemporary statements suggest that debts accrued by John Richardson influenced their move. 2. Sketches numbered 5 – 8 and 12 are now missing from the book. 3. Edward Price, quoted in David Hansen (ed.), John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 2003, p. 44 4. Hansen, ibid., p. 264 ALISA BUNBURY
Deutscher and Hackett
Nov. 22, 2022
John Glover (1767-1849)
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
Cattle by Ruins in Highlands watercolour on paper, signed l.r.c. 'Glover'
Shapiro Auctioneers
Nov. 17, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Untitled (Lake District), c1820 watercolour 60 x 87 cm (frame: 92 x 123 x 5 cm) unsigned | Provenance: Pri...
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Untitled (Lake District), c1820 watercolour 60 x 87 cm (frame: 92 x 123 x 5 cm) unsigned | Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Menzies, Sydney, 6 December 2012, Lot No. 109. Private collection, Sydney
Lawsons
Oct. 20, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Untitled (Lake District), c1820 watercolour 60 x 87 cm (frame: 92 x 123 x 5 cm) unsigned | Provenance: Pri...
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Untitled (Lake District), c1820 watercolour 60 x 87 cm (frame: 92 x 123 x 5 cm) unsigned | Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Menzies, Sydney, 6 December 2012, Lot No. 109. Private collection, Sydney
Lawsons
Oct. 16, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) "MOONLIGHT RIDER"
Est: $35,000 - $70,000
Important large oil painting on canvas (Bridge near Dunkeld,Perthshire)C 1800-1810.Important large oil painting on canvas 60cm x 90cm
Phillip Caldwell Auctioneers
Sep. 15, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Untitled (Lake District), c1820 watercolour 60 x 87 cm (frame: 92 x 123 x 5 cm) unsigned | Provenance: Pri...
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Untitled (Lake District), c1820 watercolour 60 x 87 cm (frame: 92 x 123 x 5 cm) unsigned | Provenance: Private collection, Melbourne. Menzies, Sydney, 6 December 2012, Lot No. 109. Private collection, Sydney
Lawsons
Jul. 28, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Durham Cathedral, Misty Morning watercolour on paper 75 x 110 cm (frame: 104 x 137 x 4 cm) Provenance: Tho...
Est: $12,000 - $18,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767 - 1849) Durham Cathedral, Misty Morning watercolour on paper 75 x 110 cm (frame: 104 x 137 x 4 cm) Provenance: Thomas Agnew & Sons, London (label attached verso, stock no.9210). Private collection, Western Australia. Leonard Joel, Melbourne, 16 September 2014, lot 148. Private collection, Melbourne.
Lawsons
Jul. 05, 2022
JOHN GLOVER, O.W.S. (HOUGHTON ON THE HILL 1767-1849 LAUNCESTON, AUSTRALIA)
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
JOHN GLOVER, O.W.S. (HOUGHTON ON THE HILL 1767-1849 LAUNCESTON, AUSTRALIA) The Pool of Westminster pencil and watercolour 12 x 17 in. (30.5 x 43.2 cm.)
Christie's
Jul. 05, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (HOUGHTON-ON-THE-HILL 1767-1849 LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA) Bayham A
Est: £2,500 - £3,500
JOHN GLOVER (HOUGHTON-ON-THE-HILL 1767-1849 LAUNCESTON, TASMANIA) Bayham Abbey, Kent pencil and watercolour 11 1/4 x 16 in. (28.7 x 41.1 cm.)
Christie's
Jul. 05, 2022
JOHN GLOVER, O.W.S. (HOUGHTON-ON-THE-HILL 1767-1849 LAUNCESTON, AUSTRALIA)
Est: £4,000 - £6,000
JOHN GLOVER, O.W.S. (HOUGHTON-ON-THE-HILL 1767-1849 LAUNCESTON, AUSTRALIA) An extensive river landscape with donkeys pencil and watercolour 22 x 26 1/2 in. (55.9 x 67.3 cm.)
Christie's
Jun. 29, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849), Untitled (Lake District) c1820
Est: $6,000 - $9,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) Untitled (Lake District) c1820 watercolour on paper 60.0 x 87.0 cm
Menzies
Jun. 29, 2022
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849), Durham Cathedral, Misty Morning
Est: $18,000 - $25,000
JOHN GLOVER (1767-1849) Durham Cathedral, Misty Morning watercolour on paper 75.0 x 110.0 cm
Menzies