Pastoral Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows

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Pastoral Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows

1805

John Glover (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.

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Object Details

Title:

Pastoral Landscape with Herdsmen and Cows

Date:

1805

Artist:

John Glover (English, 1767–1849)

Medium:

Watercolor with selectively applied glaze over traces of graphite on wove paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 11 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (29.2 x 41.9 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by Boies Penrose, 1930

Accession Number:

1930-39-32

Geography:

Made in England, Europe

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