Lot 2807

Description

Van Diemen's Land, handwritten cheque, Hobart Town 10th August 1841 for three hundred pounds, signed by John Glover (the artist) to Gamaliel Butler Esqr. Hobart Town, rubber stamped in oval Union Bank of Australia. Endorsed on back John Glover Recd from UBA Thos Towner Cleared to the debt of G. Butler. Very fine and of considerable historical interest.

John Glover (1767-1849), landscape painter, arrived in Hobart on 1 April 1831 with his wife and son John Richardson in the Thomas Lawrie. Already an accomplished water-colour painter, he was granted 2560 acres, allocated at Mill's Plains on the northern slope of Ben Lomond. He built his house on the Nile River, naming his property Patterdale. It was here that Glover produced many of his most famous landscapes. Highly prolific, he is remembered as one of the most accomplished painters of the early Australian colonial period.