07 62257 - John Glover ’Patterdale landscape with cattle’ c. 1833

John Glover ’Patterdale landscape with cattle’ c. 1833 Rex Nan Kivell collection: National Library of Australia and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra John Glover was undoubtedly Australia’s most important colonial artist before 1850. Indeed, he is ranked as one of the most significant landscape artists of his generation working outside Europe. After a successful career in England, Glover arrived in Tasmania on 18 February 1831, the day of his 64th birthday. The Glovers lived in Melville Street, Hobart, before moving in March 1832 to take up a land grant at Patterdale on the Nile River at Deddington, at the foot of the mountain Ben Lomond. Reinvigorated by the colony’s landscape, light and colour, Glover found a new creative impetus in Australia. He painted vital images of the Australian landscape suffused with light. Patterdale landscape with cattle is one of the first paintings Glover completed after settling on his Nile River property. The preliminary