Joseph Vernet, by Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun.

Shipwreck , 1759 , Oil on canvas, 96 x 134,5 cm , Groeninge Museum, Bruges

Claude Joseph Vernet (August 14, 1714 – December 3, 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Self Portrait in a Straw Hat, 1782 Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-LeBrun (April 16, 1755 - March 30, 1842) was a French painter, the most famous woman painter of the 18th century. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1106x820, 139 KB) Shipwreck , 1759 , Oil on canvas, 96 x 134,5 cm , Groeninge Museum, Bruges Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) File links The following pages link to this file: Shipwreck Claude Joseph Vernet ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1106x820, 139 KB) Shipwreck , 1759 , Oil on canvas, 96 x 134,5 cm , Groeninge Museum, Bruges Joseph Vernet (1714-1789) File links The following pages link to this file: Shipwreck Claude Joseph Vernet ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... Battle of Gangut, by Maurice Baquoi, 1724-27. ... December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Painting by Rembrandt self-portrait Detail from Las Meninas by Diego Velazquez, in which the painter portrayed himself at work For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter. ... Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758–November 17, 1835), commonly called Carle Vernet, was a French painter. ...

Biography

Vernet was born in Avignon. City flag City coat of arms Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Département Vaucluse (préfecture) Arrondissement Avignon Canton Chief town of 4 cantons Intercommunality Communauté dagglomération du Grand Avignon Mayor Marie-Josée Roig...

When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet started for Rome. The sight of the sea at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studio of a marine painter, Bernardino Fergioni. Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5... Marseilles redirects here. ... Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio, a sea port on the Tyrrhenian sea, 50 miles WNW of Rome, 42°06N 11°47E. According to the 2003 census, its population was 50,100. ... Tyrrhenian Sea. ...

Slowly Vernet attracted notice in the artistic milieu of Rome. With a certain conventionality in design, proper to his day, he allied the results of constant and honest observation of natural effects of atmosphere, which he rendered with unusual pictorial art. Perhaps no painter of landscapes or sea-pieces has ever made the human figure so completely a part of the scene depicted or so important a factor in his design. "Others may know better", he said, with just pride, "how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture".

For twenty years Vernet lived on in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights. In 1753 he was recalled to Paris: here, by royal command, he executed the remarkable series of the seaports of France (now in the Louvre and the Musée national de la Marine) by which he is best known. On his return he became a member of the academy, but he had previously contributed to the exhibitions of 1746 and following years, and he continued to exhibit, with rare exceptions, down to the date of his death, which took place in his lodgings in the Louvre on the 3rd of December 1789. 1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

Amongst the very numerous engravers of his works may be specially cited Le Bas, Cochin, Basan, Duret, Flipart and Le Veau in France, and in England Vivares.

Trivia

In Arthur Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", fictional detective Sherlock Holmes claims that his grandmother is Vernet's sister, without stating whether this is Claude Joseph or Antoine Charles Horace's sister. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. ... The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ...

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