Early Morning near Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland

John Glover

before 1831 · Watercolor over graphite, with gum arabic · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

John Glover

Date

before 1831

Medium

Watercolor over graphite, with gum arabic

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2012