John Glover P.S.P.W.C., P.O.W.S., P.S.B.A.

With Eaton Gallery, London;
From whom purchased by the present collectors. 

Canvas has an old relining. The picture presents a strong image to the naked eye and could be hung in its current state of preservation. There are various scattered retouches visible under UV which are mainly refined to areas within craquelure. These are spread throughout the sky but are applied quite well and are not discolored when viewed with the naked eye. In a carved gilt wood frame.
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John Glover was one of the most important figures of the British Regency art world: a member and sometime President of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, foundation member and President of the Society of Painters in Oil and Water Colours and the Society of British Artists, and one of the first British artists to stage his own solo exhibitions (1820-1824). His posthumous reputation in Britain having been compromised by his deliberate withdrawal from Royal Academy circles and by his emigration to Australia in 1830 (where he is acclaimed as one of the most important figures in colonial landscape painting), the full extent of Glover's professional achievements in the first decades of the 19th century was only recently documented, in the 2003 exhibition John Glover and the Colonial PicturesqueJ. ¹ In fact Glover enjoyed considerable commercial success, with widespread support amongst a circle of Whig grandees, including, inter alia, the Earls of Essex and Tankerville, the Marquesses of Bute and Lansdowne and the Dukes of Hamilton and Rutland.

1. D. Hansen (ed.), John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Hobart: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in association with Art Exhibitions Australia, 2003, pp. 135 & 230.