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Artist of the week
Claude Joseph Vernet, painter, draftsman and French engraver, was born in Avignon August 14, 1714 and died in Paris on December 3, 1789.
He studied painting in southern France under Adrien Manglard. Then in 1734, he moved to Rome and study the marine landscape. He was strongly influenced by Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, but retained its own style. In 1753, the Marquis de Marigny, Director of Buildings of Louis XV, commissioned 24 paintings ports of France, to show the scenes to the public.
His paintings are typically marine subjects with a preponderance of the sky and details of everyday scenes that make his works testimonies of the day.
Claude-Joseph Vernet is one of the greatest French painters of marine. His son (Carle Vernet), grand-son (Horace Vernet), and great-grand-son (Emile Lecomte-Vernet) will follow his steps in painting.
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