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(‘Cawood’
on the Ouse River) 1838
Oil on canvas laid down on board 75.5 x 114 cm Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery, Hobart
‘The Estate of Cawood...
comprises 1700 acres (more or less) of excellent pasture and
arable land, the whole substantially fenced in and subdivided
into convenient sized paddocks... the Homestead... comprising
large family mansion, with extensive outbuildings, the whole
substantially built of stone and in excellent repair...’
(Advertisement for sale of “Cawood”, Hobart Town
Courier, January 5, 1844) |
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View
of Mills' Plains c.1833
Oil on canvas 76.2 x 114.6 cm Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide
‘...he showed me... his paintings...
eight of which were views taken in Tasminia (sic) ... All
these paintings were every one of them most interesting performances.
Nothing could be more faithful than they were in representation
of the views; his trees in particular were incomparable’
(Diary of Peregrine Langton Massingberd, February-March, 1833) |
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My
Harvest Home 1835
Oil on canvas 76 x 114 cm Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,
Hobart
‘My Harvest Home Vandiemens
Land the Picture begun March 19th. 1835
the day the harvest was all got in’
(Glover’s inscription, on stretcher bar on reverse of
work) |
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Hobart
Town, taken from the Garden where I lived
1832
Oil on canvas 74 x 150 cm Dixson Galleries, State Library
of New South Wales, Sydney
‘On the 4th (April) we
quitted the vessel for an hotel accommodation, and on the
7th our people entered a house situated at the further end
of the town, on a steep hill, and overlooking the whole town,
harbour, and surrounding hills, a romantically pleasing view...’
(Letter from John Richardson Glover to his sister Mary Bowles,
September 15, 1833) |
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Mount
Wellington and Hobart Town from Kangaroo Point
1834
Oil on canvas 76.2 x 152.4 cm Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,
Hobart and National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
‘These Natives Danced and
Bathed at the request of the Artist. The Females are very
expert in the Water, the Heels of one Woman are perceptible
above the Water’
(Catalogue note from Glover’s 1835 London exhibition) |
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Cattle.
The last Gleam of the Setting Sun
1816
Oil on canvas 164 x 244 cm M J M Carter Collection, Art Gallery
of South Australia, Adelaide
‘Of Mr Glover’s animal
pieces we will say nothing: we are only sorry that he should
so far mistake his powers as to spend a moment on their execution’
(The Times, June 14, 1821) |
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