Thomas Luny

Thomas Luny (* 1759 in Cornwall, † September 30, 1837 in Teignmouth ) was a British painter of the 19th century. Among other things, he painted the Battle of the Nile.

Life

At age eleven, Luny began an apprenticeship with the marine painter Francis Holman (1729-1784) and worked intermittently until 1780 with him. In September 1777 he visited Paris and took probably a trip to Portugal. In 1780 he opened his own studio in London near the East India Company, whose members gave him orders, which led him to Naples, Gibraltar and Charleston in South Carolina.

From 1780 to 1793 he exhibited annually at the Royal Academy of Arts from, then again until 1802., The nearly ten -year hiatus was in older literature with a longer service in the Royal Navy says (it should as paymaster under Captain George Tobin in the Royal Navy have served and they leave in 1810 because of arthritis); However, this story has turned out to be untrue.

Mid- 1807 Luny moved to Teignmouth, where he held the coastal landscape of Devonshire in paintings. Luny made ​​to the estimated 3,000 paintings, mainly ships, portraits and depictions of naval battles. His works are in collections at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.