WHO WAS JOHN GLOVER?
The artist who inspired the Glover Prize was the first European to capture the true form and light of the Australian landscape. John Glover came to Australia already praised as good as Constable and Turner, then in Tasmania he become an artworld pioneer. John Glover is called the father of Australian landscape painting, the most important 19th century landscape painter to work in Australia. He lived the last 19 years of his life in Tasmania, not far from Launceston, near Evandale, the location of the annual Glover Prize. Glover was born in England in 1767 and grew up in a most fabulous time for elegance and innovation, the 18th century. In this milieu, Glover was very successful: artistically, financially and socially. Recognised by his peers as a man of genius, he made his mark in England, then at retiring age, he moved to Tasmania, then known as Van Diemen’s Land. Here he continued his career, refreshed, with a new landscape to depict as it had never been shown before. John Glover so
