Seascape: Men o’War at Dartmouth

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2 Marsham Street

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.

Places

England, Dartmouth, Devon, River Dart, English Channel

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, seascape/coastal scene, hill, wave, ensign (ship), field, hedgerow, house, castle, church, ship, Man o'War

Materials & Techniques

canvas, oil, oil painting

Artist

Thomas Luny (1759 - 1837)

Title

Seascape: Men o’War at Dartmouth

Date

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 87.50 cm, width: 132.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from S Thompson, March 1956

Inscription

blc on spar: Luny

GAC number

3483