![]() ![]() “I love working out of doors and battling with the elements. ![]() John is also an estimable landscape painter and has exhibited widely. He works in all mediums from pencil to charcoal, watercolour, pastel and oils. His work ranges from portraits in which he has captured the character and dignity of age, to others where it is the innocence of childhood that is portrayed. His subjects have included people from all walks of life, from grand official portraits of academic Masters or Chairmen of Councils to smaller, more intimate family groups or individual studies. John Glover is a highly accomplished and experienced portrait painter. Since 1980 he has concentrated on portraiture and landscape painting. He also drew a portrait of himself, as did Lely.John Glover is a graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, Jordanhill College of Further Education, and the Open University.īetween 19, John worked as a freelance book illustrator in London for such publishers as Evans Bros, Hamlyns, Oxford University Press and Macmillans. Greenhill painted a self-portrait, now hanging in the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London (engraved in Wornum's edition of Horace Walpole's "Anecdotes of Painting"). ![]() ![]() Among his chief sitters were Bishop Seth Ward, in the Guildhall at Salisbury, painted in 1673 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury, painted more than once during his chancellorship in 1672 (engraved by Abraham Blooteling) John Locke, who wrote some verses in Greenhill's praise (engraved by Pieter van Gunst) Sir William D'Avenant (engraved by William Faithorne) Philip Woolrich (engraved in mezzotint by Francis Place) poet Abraham Cowley, Admiral Edward Spragge and others. Greenhill's portraits are of great merit, often approaching those of Lely in excellence. Portraits Portrait of Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (1672–73) He left a widow and family, to whom Lely gave an annuity.Īmong Greenhill's personal admirers was dramatist Aphra Behn, who kept up an amorous correspondence with him, and lamented his early death in a fulsome panegyric. He was buried in St Giles in the Fields church. On, while returning from the Vine Tavern (in Holborn) in a state of intoxication, he fell into the gutter in Long Acre, and was carried to his lodgings in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he died the same night. But a taste for poetry and drama, and living in Covent Garden in the vicinity of the theatres, led him to associate with many members of the free-living theatrical world, and he fell into "irregular habits". Greenhill was at first industrious, and married early. Vertue also says that his progress excited Lely's jealousy. He carefully studied Vandyck's portraits, and George Vertue commented that he copied so closely Vandyck's portrait of "Thomas Killigrew and his dog" that it was difficult to know which was the original. His progress was rapid, and he acquired some of Lely's skill and method. About 1662 he moved to London and became a pupil of Peter Lely. His first attempt at a portrait was one of his paternal uncle James Abbott of Salisbury, whom he is said to have sketched surreptitiously, as the old man would not sit for him. Greenhill was educated at Salisbury Cathedral School. John's younger brother Henry became Governor of the Gold Coast and a commissioner of the Navy. His father was connected through his brothers with the East India trade. Greenhill was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire around 1644, the eldest son of John Greenhill, registrar of the diocese of Salisbury, and Penelope Champneys, daughter of Richard Champneys of Orchardleigh, Somerset. 1644 – ) was an English portrait painter, a pupil of Peter Lely, who approached his teacher in artistic excellence, but whose life was cut short by a dissolute lifestyle. For the English cleric, see John Russell Greenhill. ![]()
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