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'John Glover is Australia’s most distinguished early colonial artist and the only nineteenth-century painter to have had a successful career in Europe before migrating. He arrived from Britain to convict Tasmania in 1831 aged 64. Why did he, in old age, come to Australia and paint his most brilliant landscapes here? Ron Radford addresses these questions and examines Glover’s painting and farming at his Patterdale estate in northern Tasmania. He also records the recent saving of Glover’s 200-year-old Patterdale farmhouse and the re-creation of his studio and garden. Dr Radford stresses that Glover created Australia’s first great landscape canvases, many poignantly depicting the original Palawa inhabitants.' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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John Glover, Born-again Artist in Tasmania
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2024;
— Review of John Glover : Patterdale Farm and the Revelation of the Australian Landscape 2022 single work biography'Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter'
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Glover Country : A Pioneering Study of the Artist
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 457 2023; (p. 62)
— Review of John Glover : Patterdale Farm and the Revelation of the Australian Landscape 2022 single work biography'If you think you know about John Glover (1767–1849) and his achievements, then think again. Read this publication and you will discover fresh and compelling information about Glover, his life in Australia, and his house and garden.' (Introduction)
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Glover Country : A Pioneering Study of the Artist
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 457 2023; (p. 62)
— Review of John Glover : Patterdale Farm and the Revelation of the Australian Landscape 2022 single work biography'If you think you know about John Glover (1767–1849) and his achievements, then think again. Read this publication and you will discover fresh and compelling information about Glover, his life in Australia, and his house and garden.' (Introduction)
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John Glover, Born-again Artist in Tasmania
2024
single work
review
— Appears in: Inside Story , March 2024;
— Review of John Glover : Patterdale Farm and the Revelation of the Australian Landscape 2022 single work biography'Ron Radford shows how an elderly Englishman became the first notable white Australian landscape painter'