1805

Pastoral Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows

English, 1767 - 1849

From boyhood, John Glover was deeply attached to his local Midlands farm life and rural scenery. Although he won considerable acclaim in London as a landscape painter, he was a farmer born and emigrated to Tasmania around 1830, where he raised sheep and continued to paint. This classically balanced composition, with tall trees at the sides of the picture framing a luminous distant view in the middle, exemplifies the English pastoral landscape tradition that derives from the seventeenth-century painter Claude Lorrain, whom Glover greatly admired.