Period Portraits has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
The mid-18th century saw the emergence of the Lake District as a destination for tourists and artists on the ‘picturesque tour’ and romantic Lakeland scenes, such as this, were a particular focus for artists of the period. This landscape tradition reached its apogee in the 19th century with the work of JMW Turner.
This fine work not only reveals the artists virtuoso skill in sensitively recording acute detail (dramatic sky, mountainous landscape, expanses of water and the people within) it also shows their ability to distill all the drama and romance of an awe inspiring landscape within the confines of a comparitely small wooden panel.
This work is in an excellent state of conservation, and its colours remain fresh and vibrant giving it a distinctly modern feel. It is available to purchase in its original gilt composition frame.
John Glover (1767-1849) 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 at Lichfield. 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.
Working also as a painter of large oils, Glover was seen as a rival to the landscape artist Joseph Mallord William Turner ((1775-1851), much to the annoyance of Constable. Glover visited Paris in 1814, where he won a gold medal at the Salon for his Paysages Composè and he later travelled to Italy. In the 1820s he staged a series of one-man shows where he placed his work among the pictures of Claude Lorraine (1604-1682) and Richard Wilson (1713-1782) as for the public to judge. In 1829 the artist emigrated to Australia and settled in Tasmania, where he lived until his death, farming sheep and painting landscapes for wealthy immigrants. In Australia he has been dubbed "the father of Australian landscape painting".
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Panel: 17.75” x 13" / 45cm x 33cm.
Framed: 24.75" x 20.5" / 63cm x 52cm.
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Price: £4200.
Period Portraits has dated this piece to the 19th Century.
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An Early 19th Century Oil on Panel Lakeland Landscape - Circle of John Glover (1767 - 1849)
