French Baroque Era Painter, ca.1594-1632 Related Paintings of VALENTIN DE BOULOGNE :. | The Last Supper naqtr | Martyrdom of St Processus and St Martinian we | The Four Ages of Man | Card-sharpers t | Die Falschspieler | Related Artists:
david moniesAnton Dollpainted Ansicht von Garmisch in 19th century
John Thomas Serres1759-1825 English painter, born in London in December 1759. He was the eldest son of Dominic (1722-93), a successful marine painter who was to be one of the founder members of the Royal Academy.Son of Dominic Serres. John Thomas Serres's colourful career began with landscape painting. He later travelled extensively, spending periods in Paris (1789), Rome and Naples (1790-91), before succeeding his father to the office of Marine Painter to George III in 1793. He worked promisingly as a painter (in both oils and watercolour) of sea-pieces in the European tradition, advanced in England by Phillipe Jacques de Loutherbourg. After becoming Marine Draughtsman to the Admiralty in 1800 he took on the less challenging employment of making drawings and elevations of the west coasts of France and Spain. This connection with the Navy was probably related to his appointment as drawing instructor at Chelsea Naval School, London.
