(b Avignon, 14 Aug 1714; d Paris, 4 Dec 1789). Painter.
Vernet probably received his first lessons in painting from his
father, Antoine, who then encouraged him to move to the studio of
Philippe Sauvan (1697–1792), the leading master in Avignon. Sauvan
supplied altarpieces to local churches and decorative works and
mythologies for grand houses in the area. After this apprenticeship
Vernet worked in Aix-en-Provence with the decorative painter Jacques
Viali ( fl 1681– 1745), who also painted landscapes and marine
pictures. In 1731 Vernet independently produced a suite of decorative
overdoors for the hotel of the Marquise de Simiane at Aix-en-Provence;
at least two of these survive (in situ) and are Vernet’s earliest
datable landscapes. These are early indications of his favoured type of
subject, and Vernet would have studied works attributed to such
17th-century masters as Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet and Salvator Rosa
in private collections at Aix and Avignon. Three years later Joseph de
Seytres, Marquis de Caumont, who had previously recommended Vernet to
the Marquise de Simiane, offered to sponsor a trip to Italy. This was
partly for Vernet to complete his artistic education but also to provide
his sponsor with drawings of antiquities.
Paisaje con una cascada
Shepherd in the Alps
Mar Tempestuoso
Mar en calma
Coastal Landscape 1747
Le Naufrage
Mediterranean Port at Dawn 1750
Paisaje quebrado
A Shipwreck In A Stormy Sea By The Coast
Marina con vista de Sorrento
View of Naples 1748
A Seashore 1776
View of the Gulf of Bandol: Fishing for Tuna
Landscape With Bathers
Paisaje romano a la puesta de sol
Storm with a Shipwreck 1754
The Town and Harbour of Toulon 1756
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