UNNAMED PAINTINGS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20137, 24 December 1928, Page 12

UNNAMED PAINTINGS.

THE POSSIBLE ORIGIN. GLOVER AND HIS WORK. It is quite passible that 'unnamed paintings in the Glover collection at present at Oamaru, says the Oamaru Mail, may be the work of Glover himself, or his friend Evans, an artist of high reputation. Mr. John Glover was an artist of high repute, not unworthily taking a place with Reynolds, Turner, Constable and other masters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was born in Leicestershire on February 18, 1767. At an early ago, lie developed artistic genius, for which later lie became distinguished. Glover was one of the most prominent members of the British Water Colour Society, and in 1807 was elected president,. After a few years lie turned his attention to oils and became, a formidable rival to Turner, then considered the foremost painter of Europe. After the restoration of Louis XVIII in 1814 Mr. Clover went to the Louvre, and there painted a very large oil picture which the King greatly admired, and after its exhibition m Paris he forwarded to the artist a massive gold medal in appreciation of his talent On his second visit to Franco Louis Phillipe, then Due d'Orleans, commissioned him to paint pictures of Tasmania, having heard that was to be his future destination. In London some of Glover's pictures brought high prices. His view of Durham Cathedral, at. one time and perhaps still tn Lainbton Hall, realised 500 guineas, a large sum in those days He furnished a gallery m Bond Street with his own productions. The scenery of Tasmania had a great attraction for such a lover of nature, and hero he spent the retiring years of Ins life. One .of his paintings, "Landscape with Cattle," is t k -> be seen in the National Gallery among flie pictures of the great painters of the world.