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Joseph Vernet
Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter. His son Carle Vernet and daughter Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin were also painters.
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culture · French painter (1714–1789) · painter · printmaker · lithographer · etcher · also Joseph Vernet, Claude-Joseph Vernet, Claude Joseph Vernet, Claude-Joseph Vernè, Giuseppe Vernet, Joseph, I Vernet
Born 14 August 1714 · Died 3 December 1789 · Q315819
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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 their design.
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2026· 2 entries
Artnet news: Claude Joseph Vernet
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2018· 1 entry
MutualArt.com: Pierre Marie Joseph Vernet
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2001· 1 entry
By Ursula Phillips), it is said that a view that is being described merits the talent of Vernet, who as the writer explains in her own footnote was a whale painter
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1911· 1 entry
“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 their design.”
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1822· 1 entry
His grandson Horace Vernet produced a painting Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During a Storm depicting a scene from the elder Vernet's career
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1789· 1 entry
Died 1789-12-03.
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1714· 1 entry
Born 1714-08-14.
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