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What was the residence of John Glover (artist) from 1805 to 1830?
John Glover ( artist ) John Glover ( 18 February 1767 – 9 December 1849 ) was an English-born artist . In later life he migrated to Van Diemen’s Land and became a pastoralist during the early colonial period . He has been dubbed the father of Australian landscape painting . Life in Britain . Glover was born at Houghton-on-Hill in Leicestershire , England . His parents were farmer William Glover and Ann ( née Bright ) . He showed a talent for drawing at an early age , and in 1794 was practicing as an artist and drawing-master in Lichfield and Aldridge . The Countess of Harrington helped establish his practice as an art instructor , and may have taken lessons from him herself . He moved to London in 1805 , became a member of the Old Water Colour Society , and was elected its president in 1807 . In the ensuing years he exhibited a large number of pictures at the exhibitions of this society , and also at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists . He had one-man shows in London in 1823 and 1824 . He was a very successful artist and , although never elected a member of the Academy , his reputation stood very high with the public . Glover achieved fame as a painter of Italianate romantic landscapes of Britain ( including The falls of Foyers on Loch Ness , the Lake District and London ) and Southern Europe . He became known in both England and France as the English Claude . This phrase was making comparison with Glover and the French seventeenth century artist Claude Lorrain , whose works collected by eighteenth century English grand tourists , strongly influenced the evolution of the English style , in both painting and the layout of landscape gardens . Arrival in Australia . Glover decided to move to Australia , arriving in Van Diemens Land ( now Tasmania ) on his 64th birthday in 1831 . He brought with him a strong reputation as a landscape painter . From April 1831 until early 1832 he lived in Hobart on a property named Stanwell Hall , which can be seen in his work Hobart Town , taken from the garden where I lived . In 1832 he acquired one of the largest grants of land in Van Diemens Land at the time at Mills Plains , Deddington . He named his new property Patterdale after Blowick Farm , a property near Patterdale , at the foot of Ullswater in the Lake District . Glover’s apparently fraught relationship to his neighbour , John Batman , the bounty and aboriginal hunter , keeper of aboriginal servants and later a co-founder of Melbourne is revealed in his art and letters . Glover helped build the Chapel at Deddington and is buried within these grounds . Art in Australia . Glover is best known now for his paintings of the Tasmanian landscape . He gave a fresh treatment to the effects of the Australian sunlight on the native bushland by depicting it bright and clear , a definite departure from the darker English country garden paradigm . Note this example Patterdale Farm ( circa 1840 ) . His treatment of the local flora was also new because it was a more accurate depiction of the Australian trees and scrubland . Glover noted the remarkable peculiarity of the trees in Australia and observed that however numerous , they rarely prevent your tracing through them the whole distant country . Natives on the Ouse River , Van Diemen’s Land ( 1838 ) depicts aboriginal people in the landscape but was painted after the genocide of aboriginal Tasmanians . One critic argued the painting is informed by European notions of an Antipodean Arcadia , with Indigenous people living in a landscape unsullied by European contact but Glover had experience of aboriginal Tasmanian people elsewhere . John Glovers last major work was painted on his 79th birthday . Australian legacy . The John Glover Society was established on 22 August 2001 to honour and promote Glovers memory and his contribution to Australian art . The society commissioned a life-size statue of Glover , unveiled in February 2003 in Evandale , Tasmania . It also runs the annual Glover Prize , which is held in Evandale . John Glovers work features in many prominent art galleries throughout Australia ( and the world ) . His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and a symposium in Australia . From 2004 , The John Glover Society has awarded the Glover Prize for depictions of Tasmanian landscapes . It is the richest art prize in Australia for landscape painting . In 2019 , the farmhouse once occupied by the Glover family , southeast of Launceston , was restored and of surrounding land , which frequently featured in Glovers work , was heritage listed as Patterdale and Nile Farm . External links . - John Glover at the Art Gallery of New South Wales - Italian Landscape 1841 - in Ballarat Fine Art Gallery - Bernard Smith , Glover , John ( 1767 - 1849 ) , Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 1 , MUP , 1966 , pp 455–456 . - John Glover at Australian Art - An illustrative poem by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the Literary Gazette , 1823 .