Henry Heath Glover

Place: Lambeth

Biography:

Henry Heath Glover (c. 24 May 1827 – 15 June 1904) was an Australian artist and lithographer, commonly known as Harry Glover, or Henry Glover, jun. while his father (also an artist) was alive. He was born in Lambeth, Surrey, England, and emigrated to South Australia in 1849 with his father and brother. He served an apprenticeship as lithographer with his father, then gained experience with several London lithographic firms. In 1849 the father and two sons emigrated to Australia, arriving in Port Adelaide on the Calcutta on 23 June 1849. In December 1849 his father took over the licence of Adelaide's Stag Inn, where in October 1851 a brawl broke out which resulted in brother Sydney being charged for manslaughter. In 1853 Harry joined the gold rush to Victoria, where he spent four years on the diggings, finding time to produce a series of sketches for lithographs which were published in 1855. He married around this time and settled in Carlton. In 1857 Edgar Ray & Co. published his 12 hours road scraping in Melbourne: scraped from the streets and sketched on stone, a book with 12 pages of his lithographs. In 1858 E. L. Robinson published The Intercolonial Cricket Match, a souvenir of the Test between New South Wales and Victoria, with a large lithograph by Glover. Glover next joined the Melbourne engraving firm of De Gruchy & Leigh, then from 1864 to 1868 worked in Christchurch, New Zealand, for Ward and Reeves, proprietors of the Lyttelton Times. While in New Zealand he won an award at the Victorian Exh...