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22-453: Vernet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Painters [ edit ] Antoine Vernet (1689-1753), French painter, father of Claude Joseph Vernet Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), French painter Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758–1835), also known as Carle Vernet, French painter, the son of Claude Joseph Vernet Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789–1863), French painter,

44-562: A Storm depicting a scene from the elder Vernet's career. In Arthur Conan Doyle 's short story " The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter ", fictional detective Sherlock Holmes claims that his grandmother was the sister of the French artist "Vernet", without identifying any specific member of the family so that he could have been referring to Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet or Horace Vernet . In Maria Wirtemberska 's novel Malvina, or

66-518: A fanciful and unreal embellishment characteristic of capriccio themes. In this they resemble the capricci of Marco Ricci . Panini also painted portraits, including one of Pope Benedict XIV . As a young man, Panini trained in his native town of Piacenza , under Giuseppe Natali and Andrea Galluzzi , and with stage designer Francesco Galli-Bibiena . In 1711, he moved to Rome , where he studied drawing with Benedetto Luti . In 1724 he married Miss Gossert, sister-in-law of Wengkels , director of

88-747: A member of the academy, but he had previously contributed to the exhibitions of 1746 and following years, and he continued to exhibit, with rare exceptions, down to the date of his death, which took place in his lodgings in the Louvre on 3 December 1789. Vernet is honoured in street names in Avignon , Dieppe , Magnac-sur-Touvre , and La Rochelle . Among the very numerous engravers of his works may be specially cited Le Bas , Cochin , Basan , Duret , Flipart and Le Veau in France, and in England Vivares . In Madrid,

110-813: Is combined with a sense of harmony that is reminiscent of Claude Lorrain . Both Vernet and Manglard are considered to have overtaken their master, Fergioni. Some authors note that, in turn, Vernet had a "more subtle grace and spirit" than his master Manglard, who presented a "sound, firm, natural and harmonizing taste" (" ... Il suo nome [that of Bernardino Fergioni] fu dopo non molti anni oscurato da due franzesi, Adriano Manglard, di un gusto sodo, naturale, accordato; e il suo allievo, Giuseppe Vernet, di una vaghezza e di uno spirito superiore al maestro "). For twenty 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

132-480: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Claude Joseph Vernet Vernet was born in Avignon . When only fourteen 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 left for Rome . The sight of the whales at Marseilles and his voyage thence to Civitavecchia (Papal States' main port on

154-974: Is instrumental in rendering panoramic views. [1] [2] Panini's works are held in the permanent collections of many museums worldwide, including the Prado Museum , the Louvre , the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte , the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza , the Hermitage , the Pushkin Museum , the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , the Staatliche Museen , the Palazzo del Quirinale , the Toledo Museum of Art ,

176-478: Is primarily known as one of the vedutisti ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities. Among his most famous works are his view of the interior of the Pantheon (on behalf of Francesco Algarotti ), and his vedute —paintings of picture galleries containing views of Rome. Most of his works, especially those of ruins, have

198-663: The French Academy in Rome , with whom he had two sons: Giuseppe Pannini (Rome, 1720-1812), the architect, and Francesco Panini (Rome, 1745 - 1812), the painter, who followed in his father's footsteps and manners. In Rome, Panini earned a name for himself as a decorator of palaces. Some of his works included the Villa Patrizi (1719–1725), the Palazzo de Carolis (1720), and the Seminario Romano (1721–1722). In 1719, Panini

220-652: 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 painted the series of the seaports of France (now in the Louvre and the Musée national de la Marine ) by which he is best known for. His The Port of Rochefort (1763, Musée national de la Marine) is particularly notable; in the piece Vernet is able to achieve, according to art historian Michael Levey , one of his most 'crystalline and atmospherically sensitive skies'. Vernet has attempted to bring

242-534: The Tyrrhenian Sea ) made a deep impression on him, and immediately after his arrival he entered the studios of whale painter Bernardino Fergioni and marine landscapist Adrien Manglard . Manglard and Fergioni initiated Vernet into seascape painting. In 1734, Vernet left for Rome to study landscape designers and maritime painters, like Claude Gellee Claude Lorrain , where we find the styles and subjects of Vernet's paintings. Slowly Vernet attracted notice in

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264-486: The Heart's Intuition (1816; English translation 2001, 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. Vernet's Tempête ("Storm") was commissioned from him in 1767 by French Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot (1713 – 1784), payment for which was made in two installments each of 600 livres. A description of

286-618: The Lacquer Room of the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso . In addition, King Carlos IV , when he was Prince, bought several of his works that are still preserved in the Prado Museum and in the royal palaces. Panini died in Rome on 21 October 1765. Panini's studio included Hubert Robert and his son Francesco Panini. His style influenced other vedutisti, such as his pupils Antonio Joli and Charles-Louis Clérisseau , as well as Canaletto and Bernardo Bellotto , who sought to meet

308-693: The Republic of Buenos Aires See also [ edit ] Le Vernet (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Vernet . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vernet&oldid=956888542 " Categories : Surnames Surnames of French origin Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description

330-578: The Spanish capital, some of his paintings are found, in the Prado Museum , which holds five of his landscapes and at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , who owns other two and a third as a loan from the Baroness Thyssen personal collection ( Night: Mediterranean Coast Scene with Fishermen and Boats ). In 1822 his grandson Horace Vernet produced a painting Joseph Vernet Tied to a Mast During

352-412: 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. In this respect he

374-532: The foreground of his work to life through painting a wide array of figures engaging in a variety of activities, endeavouring to convey the sense of the commotion and drama of France's seaports. In 1757, he painted a series of four paintings titled Four Times of the Day depicting the four times of the day. Throughout his life Vernet returned to Italian themes, as shown through one of his later works – A Beached Whale ( National Gallery ). On his return from Rome he became

396-532: The need of visitors for painted "postcards" depicting the Italian environs. Some British landscape painters, such as Marlow, Skelton and Wright of Derby, also imitated his capricci. In addition to being a painter and architect, Panini was a professor of perspective and optics at the French Academy of Rome. His masterful use of perspective was later the inspiration for the creation of the " Panini Projection ", which

418-416: The painting and an explanation of the terms of the payment form the subject of the concluding section and notes to Diderot's essay "Regrets on My Old Robe; Or, A Warning For Those With More Taste Than Finances." Giovanni Paolo Panini Giovanni Paolo , also known as Gian Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765), was an Italian Baroque painter and architect who worked in Rome and

440-437: The son of Antoine Charles Horace Vernet Other [ edit ] Daniel Vernet (c. 1945–2018), French journalist Helen Vernet (1876–1956), British gambler Jacob Vernet (1698–1789), Swiss theologian José María Vernet (born 1944), Argentine politician Louis Vernet (archer) (1870–1946), French Olympic athlete Luis Vernet (1791–1871), Appointed Military and Civil Commander of Puerto Luis (1829–1832) by

462-565: Was admitted to the Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon . He taught in Rome at the Accademia di San Luca and the Académie de France , where he is said to have influenced Jean-Honoré Fragonard . In 1754, he served as the prince (director) of the Accademia di San Luca . The Spanish monarchs appreciated his work in such a way that, commissioned by Filippo Juvarra , he sent paintings to decorate

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484-502: Was heavily influenced by Giovanni Paolo Panini , whom he probably met and worked with in Rome. Vernet's work draws on natural themes, but in a way that is neither sentimental or emotive. The overall effect of his style is wholly decorative. "Others may know better", he said, with just pride, "how to paint the sky, the earth, the ocean; no one knows better than I how to paint a picture". His style remained relatively unchanged throughout his life. His works' attentiveness to atmospheric effects

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