Lot 258: ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT RA A portrait

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT RA A portrait of John Hulbert Glover SAS wearing black and holding down a sheet of wax sealed paper, inscribed to the canvas "Joh Hulbert Glover SAS biblio th Rex a Gulielmo IV Instituta Cuftos" and dated XXXVI, apparently unsigned, oil on canvas laid on board, 43" x 34.25". See illustration John Hubert Glover was the Royal Librarian to William IV. According to the vendor this painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy. Hubert Glover was the first Royal Librarian.