He showed a talent for drawing at an early age, and in 1794 was practising as an artist and drawing-master in Lichfield[7] and Aldridge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon refers to his London exhibition in The Literary Gazette, 19 April 1823, and later includes an illustrative poem on Two Doves in a Grove.

[10][11] Glover achieved fame as a painter of "Italianate" romantic landscapes of Britain (including The Falls of Foyers on Loch Ness, the Lake District and London) and Southern Europe.

This phrase was making comparison with Glover and the French seventeenth century artist Claude Lorrain, whose works collected by eighteenth century English "grand tourists", strongly influenced the evolution of the English style, in both painting and the layout of landscape gardens.

[12] Glover decided to move to Australia, arriving in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) on his 64th birthday in 1831.

[15][16] He gave a fresh treatment to the effects of the Australian sunlight on the native bushland by depicting it bright and clear, a definite departure from the darker "English country garden" paradigm.

Glover noted the "remarkable peculiarity of the trees" in Australia and observed that "however numerous, they rarely prevent your tracing through them the whole distant country".

[6] The auction attracted over 1,000 online bidders with four extra phone lines required to meet demand.