Title
The Italian coast near Naples
1828
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 1828
- Media category
- Watercolour
- Materials used
- Watercolour with gum highlights over traces of pencil ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 21.7 x 42.0 cm image; 34.0 x 47.7 cm sheet; 47.0 x 66.0 x 2.0 cm frame
- Signature & date
Signed and dated l.r. corner on original window mount, black ink "J Glover 1828".
- Credit
- Purchased 1986
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 253.1986
- Copyright
- Artist information
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John Glover
Works in the collection
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About
When John Glover arrived in Tasmania at the age of sixty three after a long and successful career as a watercolourist and landscape painter in England, his compositions were criticised for being formulaic and mannered, but the landscape of his new home so reinvigorated his art that he was to produce some of the most visionary images of the Australian landscape. Italy was a favoured subject of many artists of the ninteenth century due to its connections with the major figures of landscape painting, Claude, Poussin and Rosa. It was also much admired by Glover - it was the place where he received some of his earliest training as an artist, and represented for him the essential subject of landscape painting. The wild, rocky mountains and clear light-filled sky in 'The Italian coast near Naples' are an antecedent to the transparent landscapes that characterised Glover's antipodean work.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 7 exhibitions
The sixth exhibition of the Society of British Artists, Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1829–1829
John Glover 1767-1849, Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, 30 Sep 1986–28 Oct 1986
Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection (1991), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 1991–07 Jul 1991
English landscape watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Apr 1997–07 Jul 1997
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 27 Nov 2003–01 Feb 2004
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 19 Feb 2004–12 Apr 2004
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 24 Apr 2004–18 Jul 2004
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, 13 Aug 2004–03 Oct 2004
19th century Australian watercolours, drawings & pastels, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Apr 2005–24 Jul 2005
Victorian watercolours, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 02 Jun 2017–03 Dec 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 8 publications
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Christopher Allen, The Australian weekend review, 'Real-world views', 22 Jul 2017-23 Jul 2017, pp 10–11: col illus p 11.
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David Hansen, John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque, Hobart, 2003, 188, 189 (colour illus.). cat.no. 54; titled 'Coast near Naples'; dated 1828
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Hendrik Kolenberg., Nineteenth century Australian watercolours from the collection, 'Introduction', Sydney, 1991. not paginated, cat.no. 28
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Hendrik Kolenberg, 19th century Australian watercolours, drawing and pastels from the Gallery's collection, 'Introduction', pg. 6-16, Sydney, 2005, 9, 25 (colour illus.).
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John McPhee, John Glover 1767-1849, Sydney, 1986, 27 (colour illus.). cat.no. 23
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Peter Raissis, Victorian watercolours from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2017, pp 100–101, col illus p 101.
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Anne Ryan, Australian art: in the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Colonial eyes', pg. 17-18, Sydney, 2000, 18, 22 (colour illus.), 300.
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Martin Terry, Look, 'The Italian Coast near Naples', Heidelberg, Jun 1987, 20-21 (colour illus.).
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Provenance
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Sep 1986-Oct 1986, Sydney/New South Wales/Australia, Purchased by the Art Gallery of New South Wales from the exhibition 'John Glover 1767-1849' held at Rex Irwin Art Dealer, 20 September - 28 October 1986.
