Claude-Joseph Vernet (1714 – 1789)

• Was a French painter.
• His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
• Vernet was born in Avignon.
• When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet, a skilled decorative painter.
• For twenty years Vernet lived in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights, and large whales.
• Vernet becoming especially popular with English aristocrats, many of whom were on the Grand Tour.
• In 1745 he married an Englishwoman whom he met in the city.
• In 1753 he was recalled to Paris: there, by royal command, he executed the series of the seaports of France (now in the Louvre and the Musée national de la Marine).
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