John Glover, O.W.S. (Houghton-on-the-Hill 1767-1849 Dedington, Tasmania)
John Glover, O.W.S. (Houghton-on-the-Hill 1767-1849 Dedington, Tasmania)

A waterfall between Llanrwst and Conway, North Wales

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John Glover, O.W.S. (Houghton-on-the-Hill 1767-1849 Dedington, Tasmania)
A waterfall between Llanrwst and Conway, North Wales
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
21 5/8 x 29 in. (55 x 73.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Abbott & Holder, London.
Exhibited
London, Old Water-Colour Society, 1805, no. 41.

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Lot Essay

The son of a Leicestershire farmer, Glover was appointed writing master at a school in Westmorland in 1786, and eight years later became drawing master in Lichfield, Staffordshire. He was a pupil of William Payne, and in 1795 began exhibiting oil paintings at the Royal Academy, which were favourably received compared to those of Turner, much to the irritation of John Constable. In exploring new ways to capture light and atmosphere in his work Glover developed the technique of painting foliage with a split brush which can be seen in the trees and vegetation in the present watercolour. A founding member of the Old Water-Colour Society, Glover exhibited regularly before he emigrated to Tasmania in 1831. A comparable watercolour of a waterfall entitled Rhiadr Ddu, near Maentwrog, North Wales is in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

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