Down to the seashore with French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. Living from 1714 to 1789, his father and his son were artists too.

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“The Shipwreck.” 1772. French. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated “J. Vernet / F. 1772” on the bottom left. Collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vernet,Claude_Joseph–The_Shipwreck-_1772.jpg
“A Storm on a Mediterranean Coast.” 1767. French. Oil on canvas. Collections of the Getty Center, Los Angeles. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude-Joseph_Vernet_-A_Storm_on_a_Mediterranean_Coast-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
“Shipwreck.” 1763. French. Oil on canvas. Collections of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg. In the public domain in the United States because the artist has been dead over 100 years. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Vernet_-Shipwreck-_WGA24740.jpg
“A Seashore.” ca. 1776. French. Oil on canvas. Collections of the National Gallery, London. Image source:
National Gallery, London. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude-Joseph_Vernet_-A_Sea-shore–c_1776-_National_Gallery_UK.jpg

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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