Autres oeuvres de joseph vernet biography death

Claude-Joseph Vernet was the leading French landscape painter (with Hubert Robert) of the later 18th century.

Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French landscape painter. He is famous for his moonlight and storm scenes. He had many English patrons whilst he worked in Rome and returned to France in to undertake a royal commission about the ports of France. He was born in Avignon on 14th August and died on 3rd December in Paris. His father Antoine Vernet was a skilled decorative painter.

He enters the studios of the whale painter Bernardino Fergioni and the marine landscapist Adrien Manglard.

The present paintings as a pair - juxtaposing the serene and tranquil atmosphere of the harbour sunset alongside the tumultuous and dramatic shipwreck.

Influenced by them he begins to paint his own seashores and ports in a style which is often imaginative and is a precursor to the Romantics. His figures become part of the landscape which is unusual for the time which was heavily influenced by neo-classicism. He makes a name for himself particularly with English aristocrats on the Grand Tour.

His father dies. He becomes a member of the Academie Royal and continues to exhibit with them for the rest of his life and even includes Italian scenes from memory. He becomes a famous painter of battle scenes under Napoleon Bonaparte. Examples of the paintings of Vernet. Joseph Vernet. Major Works. Biography Timeline.