A sketchbook that once belonged to the great landscape artist John Glover, and which was originally expected to sell for 4,000 British pounds at most, has sold to an Australian bidder for 20 times that.
The early 19th century sketchbook sold for 81,000 pounds ($150,000).
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It includes sketches from Glover’s Scottish tour, including 10 full-page sketches in pencil, pen and ink and wash, and about 80 others.
John Glover is considered the father of Australian landscape painting.
According to the auction house that managed the sale, the sketchbook attracted over 1,000 online bidders and had institutional interest.
“We had huge amounts of interest, especially from Australia,” Ewbank’s auction house partner Andrew Ewbank said.
“We are delighted that these historic documents have found a new home in a part of the world where they have such added significance.”
The sketchbook’s Australian buyer, a private collector, also bought the missing pages from the 1850-52 ship’s log of master mariner Alexander Weynton, an early colonial figure in Australian history.
The sketchbook came from the property of a deceased collector.
Sketchbooks integral to Glover as an artist
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Megan Dick, a curator with the John Glover Prize — an Australian annual art prize awarded for paintings of the landscape of Tasmania — said the sketchbook was an important historic document.
“This represents a really interesting part of Australia’s history and who [Glover] was,” she said.
Ms Dick said it also spoke to Glover’s artistic process.
“He would go into the landscape even when he came to Tasmania, around Mills Plains,” she said.
“Even in his 60s, he would walk for days and really study the landscape and become immersed in the landscape, so these sketchbooks are really significant to his further works.”
Ms Dick said the sale was a reflection of the fact the art market had been “buoyant” over the past year.
“The international gateways are closed, so we’re spending money internally.
“Focusing on art and focusing on our own personal experience and cultural history is becoming more significant, the more we look towards ourselves and stay on the ground.”
Ms Dick said she hoped the private collector would display the item so the public could benefit from the sale.
Who was John Glover?
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John Glover (1767-1849) was born at Houghton on the Hill, near Leicester, England. He was the youngest son of a farmer.
When he moved to Tasmania in 1831, he was already an established British artist.
He quickly cemented himself as one of the first colonial artists to accurately depict the Australian landscape.
“Most colonial artists painted in a British style,” Ms Dick said.
“He keenly observed the Indigenous people … he looked a lot more at society and the culture rather than just depicting the landscape and the trees in front of him.
Glover’s respect for Indigenous people was one of the reasons he developed a strained relationship with his neighbour, John Batman — one of Melbourne’s first colonial settlers.
Batman is believed to have been a key figure in Tasmania’s “roving parties”, groups dedicated to rounding up and capturing Tasmania’s Aboriginal people.
“John Glover had a lot more empathy for all people and all cultures, and so that’s where the fraught relationship was,” Ms Dick said.
In a quote widely attributed to Glover, he described Batman as “a rogue, thief, cheat and liar, a murderer of blacks and the vilest man I have ever known”.
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