Sandown Bay, from near Shanklin Chine, Isle of Wight
Date:
ca. 1827
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
36 x 52 inches (91.4 x 132.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1976.7.31
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
hunting | men | people | hills | bay (body of water) | shore (landform) | island | beach | ocean | sea | boats | ship | landscape
Associated Places:
Europe | England | United Kingdom | Sandown | Shanklin | Isle of Wight
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 2003-12-05 - 2004-02-01)John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (Art Gallery of South Australia, 2004-02-19 - 2004-04-12)John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (National Gallery of Australia, 2004-04-24 - 2004-07-18)John Glover and the Colonial Picturesque (National Gallery of Victoria, 2004-08-13 - 2004-10-03)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 104-105, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Seascapes : Yale Center for British Art., , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1977, no. 36, V 1909 (YCBA) Vertical FileDavid Hansen, John Glover and the colonial picturesque, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart [Australia], 2003, p. 187, no. 53, NJ18 G476 H35 2003 + (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 3, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Keith Roberts, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 113,no.817, April 1971, pp. 232-33, fig. 76, N1 B87 + (YCBA) Available online in JStorThos. Agnew and Sons Ltd., English life and landscape, an exhibition of English pictures, 1730-1870, 8th March-8th April 1971. , [London, 1971, no. 12, ND1314.4 A35 + (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
John Glover, who was a major figure in the Regency art world, traveled on horseback throughout Britain in search of picturesque views. This is the more remarkable because he weighed 250 pounds and had two clubfeet. The Isle of Wight had been explored from the 1790s by, among others, J. M. W. Turner and Glover's friends, the watercolorists George Barrett and Peter de Wint. Although he had previously toured to the southwest of England, Glover did not cross to the Isle of Wight until 1826. The rugged cliff-top, a vantage point for ramblers; the empty drop to the beach; the impressive effects in the lowering sky; and the puny insignificance of the human activity below it-all conform to the general pattern of sublime-romantic view painting. In 1830, Glover emigrated with his family to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in Australia. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2005