John Glover, My Harvest Home
"My Harvest Home" (1835) is one of John Glover's most popular paintings. To me it is the one with most photographic compositional elements - even though photography didn't arrive in the colony until 1841. See how he creates those sun rays there just above the hay wagon. And those shadows. This is precisely the way most photographers would set the scene.
The painting is made on his property at "Patterdale Farm" Mills Plains in northern Tasmania. Here we see convicts at work, as Glover would have been assigned a number of convicts as farm labourers.
John Glover, My Harvest Home
"My Harvest Home" (1835) is one of John Glover's most popular paintings. To me it is the one with most photographic compositional elements - even though photography didn't arrive in the colony until 1841. See how he creates those sun rays there just above the hay wagon. And those shadows. This is precisely the way most photographers would set the scene.
The painting is made on his property at "Patterdale Farm" Mills Plains in northern Tasmania. Here we see convicts at work, as Glover would have been assigned a number of convicts as farm labourers.