Thomas Luny (1759–1837)

• Was an English painter who specialised in marine art.
• Luny was born in Cornwall, probably at St Ewe, in 1759.

• At the age of eleven, Luny left Cornwall to live in London.

• There he became the apprentice of Francis Holman.

• Luny remained until 1780 in Holman's London studio.

• Luny left Holman's studio in 1780 and would later move to Leadenhall Street in 1783.

• It was around this time that Luny was frequently exhibiting at the Royal Academy, in a total of twenty-nine exhibitions between 1780 and 1802.

• Several years later, in 1807, Luny decided to move again, this time to Teignmouth in Devon.

• Luny was by that time suffering with arthritis in both of his hands.

• This had no obvious impact on the quality or pace of his artistic work. In fact, of his lifetime oeuvre of over 3,000 works, over 2,200 were produced between 1807 and his death.

• He died on 30 September 1837. 

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