Early morning near Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland

before 1831

Not on view

Known as the "English Claude," after the famed seventeenth-century painter Claude Lorrain, Glover here applied that master’s golden Italianate vision to a northern subject. A member of London’s Society of Painters in Water-Colours, the artist demonstrated the medium’s ability to convey atmospheric effects in works that commanded prices second only to those of his contemporary J. M. W. Turner. This exhibition piece depicts a locale bordering the Scottish Highlands. Delicate washes evoke sunlight diffused by mist, and Glover’s distinctive split-brush technique has been used to create fuzzy, layered foliage. Bright touches of light sparkle off a stream and the shoulder of a girl who carries a jug. Shortly after making this work, Glover moved to Tasmania and helped to establish Australian landscape painting.

Artwork Details

Title: Early morning near Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland
Artist: John Glover (British, Houghton-on-the-Hill, Leicester 1767–1849 Launceston, Tasmania)
Date: before 1831
Medium: Watercolor over graphite, with gum arabic
Dimensions: sheet: 16 x 21 9/16 in. (40.7 x 54.7 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012
Object Number: 2012.47
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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