Glover decided to move to Australia, arriving in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) on his 64th birthday in 1831. He brought with him a strong reputation as a landscape painter. From April 1831 until early 1832 he lived in Hobart on a property named "Stanwell Hall", which can be seen in his work "Hobart Town, taken from the garden where I lived". In 1832 he acquired one of the largest grants of land in Van Diemen's Land at the time at "Mills Plains", Deddington. He named his new property "Patterdale" after "Blowick Farm", a property near Patterdale, at the foot of Ullswater in the Lake District.