GLOVER, John
(b. 1767, Houghton-on-the-Hill, d. 1849, Launceston, Tasmania)

View of Keswick, in the Lake District, Cumberland

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Oil on canvas, 76 x 115 cm
Private collection

Glover had a house at Blowick Farm near Patterdale, at the foot of Ullswater Lake, and spent much of his time in the Lake District. He was so fond of the region that, when in Tasmania, where he settled from 1831, he reminiscently named his house Patterdale.