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Patterdale Landscape with Cattle
John Glover
Painted at Glover's Tasmanian property, and among the earliest sustained European records of the Australian landscape.
- Artist
- John Glover
- Date
- c. 1835
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 76.5 × 114.5 cm
- Location
- Australian public collections
History
What the record shows
Glover emigrated at sixty-four and built Patterdale farm in the Nile valley, painting the country around it for the rest of his life.
His Tasmanian canvases are now dispersed between Australian and British collections and move regularly for survey exhibitions.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Painted at Patterdale, Tasmania, c. 1835
- 02British and Australian private collections, 19th–20th centuries
- 03Australian public collections
