John Glover
John Glover
Patterdale Farm
and the
Revelation of the Australian Landscape
John Glover is Australia’s most distinguished early colonial artist and the only nineteenth-century painter to have had a successful career in Europe before migrating.
Ron Radford addresses these questions and examines Glover’s painting and farming at his Patterdale estate in northern Tasmania.
About The Author
The author, Ron Radford, is a former Director of the National Gallery of Australia. Prior to that he was Senior Curator, then Director, of the Art Gallery of South Australia. Among other collecting areas, he has been responsible for building colonial collections in Ballarat, Adelaide and Canberra. He is the author of many catalogues, art books and articles. Dr Radford lives in Hobart.
