View Of Calais Taken From The Middle Of The Pier
Le Chesnay, France
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Material
Paper
Style
Antique, French Antiques
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Description
Beautiful aquatint by Louis Garneray (Paris 1783 - Paris 1857), representing a view of the port of Calais (Pas-de-Calais) in the 1820s.
It is difficult to summarize in a few lines the adventurous life of Ambroise-Louis Garneray. This could be the subject of a real novel. Born in Paris in 1783, Garneray joined the Navy at the age of 13 and began a maritime career that would take him to the Indian Ocean, Bourbon Island (Reunion Island) and the island. of France (Mauritius). In 1799, he became the helmsman and worthy son of his father, the famous miniaturist Jean-François Garneray, the first painter on board. In 1800, he undertakes under Surcouf's orders on "La Confiance" as a lieutenant. He will participate in this capacity to the famous catch of the English ship "Kent" by the famous pirate. Upon his return, he invests money earned during his shopping in the slave trade and becomes second captain on the slave ship "The Union". When the war resumed against England after the Peace of Amiens, he was on "The Beautiful Hen" when the ship was taken by the English in 1806. Wounded and taken prisoner, he was taken to the United Kingdom where he was going to pass. eight years in the hell of the pontoons of Plymouth harbor, obviously enjoying a captivity somewhat softened since it seems that he had the right to exercise his talents as a painter and even meet London orders. The peace returned in 1814 with the return of the Bourbons to the throne, he was released and returned to Paris where, after serving the Empire for many years, he will put his talents as a painter at the service of the Restoration. In 1817, he became by competition the appointed painter of the Duke of Angoulême, Grand Admiral of France. He is named in a way a painter of the Navy, title that will be officially created in 1830 by the Monarchy of July, with painters Crepin and Gudin. He then exhibited at the Salon and will receive in 1819 a second class medal. Between 1821 and 1830, he went to all major ports of France to make many sketches, from which he will make his great series engraved ports of France. This is the series from which our engraving is extracted. In 1833 he was appointed director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen. It also includes the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, without ceasing its intense activity of engraver. Close to Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, he participated from afar in 1836 in the coup attempt of the future Napoleon III, after the revolt of the garrison of Strasbourg. In 1852, he received the Légion d'Honneur in recognition of his loyalty to the Bonapartist cause. He died in 1857 in Paris. He wrote his memoirs, as well as several stories of adventures.
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