H.M. Frigate “Endymion” off Plymouth

Thomas Luny (1759 - 1837)

Oil on canvas

1807

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House
  • About the artist
    Thomas Luny, marine painter, apparently studied with the artist Francis Holman in London. He exhibited mostly at the Royal Academy, where he showed his work every year from 1780 to 1793. He showed nothing after 1793 until 1802, when he exhibited 'Battle of the Nile', and then nothing until the year of his death, when he exhibited three pictures. It is possible that in 1793 he joined the Royal Navy to fight in the French Revolutionary Wars. Luny retired to Teignmouth in Devon, in about 1810, where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. In spite of being crippled by arthritis in both his hands and his legs for over 30 years he continued to paint assiduously and his total life's work is thought to have produced some 3000 pictures.
  • Explore
    Places
    England, Plymouth, Devon, English Channel
    Subjects
    HM Frigate 'Endymion', topography, seascape/coastal scene, ensign (ship), ship, frigate
    Materials & Techniques
    canvas, oil, oil painting
  • Details
    Artist
    Thomas Luny (1759 - 1837)
    Title
    H.M. Frigate “Endymion” off Plymouth
    Date
    1807
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    height: 84.50 cm, width: 127.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Purchased from the Parker Gallery, March 1956
    Inscription
    sdbl
    GAC number
    3446