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French painter (1714–1789)

Claude-Joseph Vernet (French pronunciation:[klodʒozɛfvɛʁnɛ]; 14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789) was a French painter.

His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.

Life and work

Vernet was born in Avignon.

Claude-Joseph Vernet (French pronunciation: [klod ʒozɛf vɛʁnɛ]; 14 August – 3 December ) was a French painter.

A coach painter's son, Claude-Joseph Vernet first studied with his father, then with a painter in Aix-en-Provence.

Biography.

Claude-Joseph Vernet was a leading French landscape artist who was instrumental in developing the genre of marine painting.

Four Times of the Day is a series of four paintings depicting four times of the day: Morning, Midday, Evening, and Night by the French landscape painter.

When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753),^[1] a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work. The panels of sedan chairs, however, could not satisfy his ambition, and Vernet left for Rome.

The sight of the whales at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on the Tyrrhenian Sea) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studios of whale painter Bernardino Fergioni^[2] and marine landscapist Adrien Manglard.^[3][4] Manglard and Fergioni initiated Vernet into seascape painting.^[4][5][6]

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