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Thomas Luny Art

British, 1759-1837
Thomas Luny was the son of Thomas Luny and his wife Elizabeth Wallace. He was probably born in Cornwall and was baptized at St Ewe near Mevagissey on 20th May 1759. His mother had a son from a previous marriage, Captain James Wallace (1754-1832), who served with Nelson at Copenhagen in 1801. By 1773 Luny was apprenticed to the marine painter Francis Holman (1729-1784), giving Holman’s address at Johnson Street, St George’s when he sent his first exhibit to the Society of Artists in 1777. In 1781/82 he moved to Ratcliffe Highway, Stepney. Luny exhibited at the Society of Artists again in 1778, at the Free Society in 1783, and sent pictures to the Royal Academy from 1780 to 1793. He painted London views, portraits of East Indiamen, and battle scenes. Luny exhibited no works between 1793 and 1802 and it was once thought that he served as a purser in the Royal Navy; this has now been discounted. His painting subjects suggest that he traveled, but there is no direct evidence for this except a visit to Paris in 1777. In 1791 he bought a property at 16 Mark Lane, between Leadenhall Street and the Thames, and by 1795 he was earning enough to invest regularly in government stocks. In mid-1807 he moved (probably for reasons of health) to Teignmouth, a fashionable watering-place on the Devon coast popular with retired naval officers. A number of them became friends and patrons, notably Captain George Tobin, an amateur artist. In 1808-9 he built a handsome house on the harbor front in Teign Street, later called Luny House. Luny was a prolific producer of Devon coastal views, shipping scenes, and naval events, despite suffering so severely from arthritis that he had to paint with the brush strapped to his wrist. He sent a Battle of the Nile to the Royal Academy in 1802 and three paintings in 1837, the year that there was an exhibition of 130 of his paintings in Old Bond Street. Luny died at Teignmouth on 30th September 1837. The work of Thomas Luny is represented in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; the Bristol City Art Gallery; Exeter Art Gallery; Swansea Museum; the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massachusetts and the Library of New South Wales, Sydney.
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Shipping Off the Coast
Shipping Off the Coast

Shipping Off the Coast

By Thomas Luny

Located in Wiscasett, ME

Shipping off the coast by English artist Thomas Luny. Oil on canvas signed and dated 35' in the lower left. Nice period and possibly original frame. Thomas Luny (1759–1837), born in Cornwall, probably at St Ewe, was an English artist and painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. At the age of eleven, Luny left Cornwall to live in London. There he became the apprentice of Francis Holman, a marine painter who would have a great and long lasting artistic influence on Luny: Luny remained until 1780 in Holman's London studio, which, was first situated in Broad Street, St. George's, and later relocated to Old Gravel Lane. Examples of his work are exhibited at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, and at The Mariners' Museum in Newport...

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1830s Victorian Thomas Luny Art

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Oil

The Battle of Raz de Sein
The Battle of Raz de Sein

The Battle of Raz de Sein

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Located in London, GB

Thomas Luny 1759-1837 The Battle of Raz de Sein Oil on canvas, signed and dated 'Luny 1834' lower left Image size: 15 1/4 x 20 1/8 inches (38.7 x 51.2 cm) Provenance The Parker Gall...

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"Shipping Off the Coast" by Thomas Luny
"Shipping Off the Coast" by Thomas Luny

"Shipping Off the Coast" by Thomas Luny

By Thomas Luny

Located in Wiscasset, ME

Shipping off the coast by English artist Thomas Luny. Oil on canvas signed and dated 35' in the lower left. Nice period and possibly original frame. Thomas Luny (1759–1837), born in Cornwall, probably at St Ewe, was an English artist and painter, mostly of seascapes and other marine-based works. At the age of eleven, Luny left Cornwall to live in London. There he became the apprentice of Francis Holman, a marine painter who would have a great and long lasting artistic influence on Luny: Luny remained until 1780 in Holman's London studio, which, was first situated in Broad Street, St. George's, and later relocated to Old Gravel Lane. Examples of his work are exhibited at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, and at The Mariners' Museum in Newport...

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1830s English Victorian Antique Thomas Luny Art

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