John Glover (artist)

John Glover
John Glover
Born(1767-02-18)18 February 1767
Died9 December 1849(1849-12-09) (aged 82)
'Patterdale house', Launceston,
Colony of Van Diemen’s Land
NationalityBritish
EducationFree School, Appleby
Known forLandscape
Notable work'Hobart Town, taken from the garden where I lived', 1832
'Mount Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point' 1831–33
'Natives on the Ouse River, Van Diemen's Land', 1838
'Natives at a corrobory, under the wild woods of the Country [River Jordan below Brighton, Tasmania]', ca. 1835
'A view of the artist's house and garden, in Mill's Plains, Van Diemen's Land', 1835
MovementClaudean style, picturesque
SpouseSarah
AwardsLouis XVIII gold medal (for 'Bay of Naples')

John Glover RBA (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."