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1 2 y separately published work icon John Glover : Patterdale Farm and the Revelation of the Australian Landscape Ron Radford , Australia : Ovata Press , 2022 26769502 2022 single work biography

'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)
1 Where There's a Will Ron Radford , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 March vol. 122 no. 6413 2004; (p. 80)
— Review of Mr Felton's Bequests J. R. Poynter , 2003 single work biography
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