John Glover ? (1767-1849), Important Hst "mountainous Landscape, Lake, Mill", 19th Century

Important oil painting on canvas depicting a pretty mountainous landscape with cows at the edge of the lake, a mill and fishermen, dating from the beginning of the 19th century, it passed into the hands of the famous restorer William Morrill (1838-1910) for a re-covering at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century (stamp on the back of the frame). Many elements lead us to believe that this painting is a work of John Glover? (1767-1849). Provenance: private collection. Size 114*76 cm and 149*112 cm with frame. William Morrill (1838-1910), worked for the 4th Marquess of Hertford or for Sir Richard Wallace. Morrill lined various paintings now part of the Wallace collection, the stretchers being stamped W. MORRILL/LINER or W. MORRILL, including Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher, Venice “Canaletto”: the Grand Canal by S. Simeone Piccolo, Mrs. Elizabeth Carnac by Joshua Reynolds, Landscape with a Waterfall by Allart van Everdingen, A Wooded Landscape by Meindert Hobbema, The Burning of the Andrew by Willem van de Velde the Younger after 1871, and Doubtful Crumbs by Edwin Landseer (see Ingamells 1985 pp.112, 146, 256, Ingamells 1989 p.38, Ingamells 1992 pp.117, 155, 386, 418). He also doubled Jan Weenix's Dead Game and Small Birds and his Dead Peacock and Game, c. 1872, and cradled Rubens' Rainbow Landscape, 1895 (Ingamells 1992 pp.312, n.3, 410, n.3). The Morrill family were working at the Oxford University Galleries in 1867 (Norman 2009, p. 23). Furthermore, Thomas Creswick's The Windmill (Sudley, Liverpool, see Morris 1996, p. 96) bears an engraved stretcher mark: W. MORRILL/Liner. "W. Morrill" carried out lining work at an unspecified date on John Sell Cotman's Duncombe Park (Tate), stamped on the back of the stretcher: W. MORRILL LINER (information from Rose Miller, May 2012, from the museum's conservation archives).