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An image of Launceston and the river Tamar by John Glover

John Glover

(England, Australia 18 Feb 1767–09 Dec 1849)

Title
Launceston and the river Tamar
Other titles:
A view from Trevallyn of Launceston and the river Tamar, Van Dieman's Land
A Colonial Landscape, with minutely painted foreground. Love birds on the trees, & c.
Year
(circa 1832)
Media category
Painting
Materials used
oil on canvas
Dimensions

76.7 x 113.3cm stretcher; 95 x 136.5 x 11.5cm frame

Signature & date
Signed l.r., brown oil "J Glover". Not dated.
Credit
Anonymous gift 1972
Accession number
41.1972
Location
19th c Australian art
Further information

In 1831 John Glover arrived in the Tamar River, Launceston after a five month journey from England with his wife Sarah, and son John Richardson Glover. This painting dates within the first years of Glover's arrival in Australia and testifies to his desire to capture the unique environment he encountered.

Bibliography (10)

Australian Gallery Directors Council, Old master paintings from the USSR: A survey of four centuries of European art. Report 1979, 'John Glover', Sydney, 1979. cat.no. 47; catalogue entry

Susan Bruce, A treasury of Australian bush painting, Adelaide, 1979, 8 (colour illus.), 15. plate no. 7

David Hansen, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque 2003, Hobart, 2003, 111 (colour illus.), 201 (colour illus.). cat.no. 65; titled 'Launceston and the River Tamar'; dated c.1832

Tony MacDougall (Editor), Australian Encyclopaedia Vol. 6 1996, Terrey Hills, 1996, 2330 (colour illus.).

john McPhee, Art Gallery of New South Wales Collection Series 1981, 'John Glover: Ullswater from Patterdale', Sydney, 1981, illus..

John McPhee, The Art of John Glover, Melbourne, 1980, 26, 69, 88 (colour illus.).

John McPhee, John Glover 1977, Launceston, 1977, 38, 43, 45.

David Muir (Director) and Malcolm Otton (Producer), Four Colonial painters 1832-1887 circa 1980, Lindfield, circa 1980. The Australian eye series is an historically grouped series of films on Australian painting made by Film Australia with the co-operation of the National Gallery and the Art Galleries in each state. Each program takes a major work of each of the particular artists from the period concerned, and examines that work in detail.

Daniel Thomas, Art and Australia [vol. 10, no. 1] Jul 1972, 'Australian collection', pg. 52-62, Sydney, Jul 1972, 53 (colour illus.).

Sydney Ure Smith (Editor), Art and Australia Jul 1972, Sydney, Jul 1972, 1 (illus.).

Exhibition history (2)

European masters and Australian painting from Australian collections:

John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque: