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Early Morning near Loch Katrine in the Trossachs, Scotland

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts | CC0 1.0

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Date

before 1831

Artist

John Glover (1767-1849)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/399140

Description

Known as the "English Claude," after 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, a region then exotic to English viewers. 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 establish Australian landscape painting. Medium: watercolor over graphite, with gum arabic.

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CC0 1.0

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Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

Trossachs, Stirling, Scotland

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Landscapes & Seascapes

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