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Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 1714 – 3 December 1789); French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter.
Vernet was born in Avignon. When only 14 years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753), 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 started 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 studio of a whale painter, Bernardino Fergioni.
...For 20 years Vernet lived in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights, and large whales, 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) by which he is best known.
....In 1757, he painted a series of four paintings titled Four Times of the Day depicting, surprisingly, four times of the day.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Joseph_Vernet) undefined