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Monamy, Peter
This is the second of Monamy-s personally executed engravings
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ID: 44757
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Monamy, Peter
English Painter, 1681-1749
English painter. It seems likely that his family origins and name were French. The Painter-Stainers' Company records that he was apprenticed as a house painter to William Clarke from 1696, but by 1710 he had become a marine artist, filling the gap in the market left by the death of Willem van de Velde the younger in 1707. Most of his subsequent career was devoted to careful imitations of van de Velde's style (and, in some cases, of particular pictures), by which, according to Vertue, 'he distinguished himself and came into reputation'. He maintained his links with the Painter-Stainers, of which he had been made a freeman in 1703 Related Paintings of Monamy, Peter :. | The Royal yacht Royal Caroline in a Storm | An Action at Gibraltar | Four Prints of an election | The First-rate ship Royal Sovereign stern quarter view,in a calm | This is the second of Monamy-s personally executed engravings | Related Artists: Henry WaltonBritish Painter ,
c 1746-1813
He studied in London under Johan Zoffany c. 1769, after which he completed his training at the Maiden Lane Academy. It was probably Zoffany who introduced Walton to the conversation piece, a genre in which he was to specialize. The Cricket Scene at Harrow School (1771; priv. col., see 1963 exh. cat., no. 1) reveals Walton's debt to Zoffany, but it also shows him to be an exceptional colourist and able to compose his figures with a sense of rare warmth and intimacy. By c. 1778, when he painted the Rev. Charles Tyrrell with his Family Hippolyte-LucasFrench, 1854-1925 PYNAS, JacobDutch Baroque Era Painter, ca.1585-1650
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