Thomas Luny -Dutch Sailboats in Choppy Waters-18th Century Oil Painting

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Thomas Luny -Dutch Sailboats in Choppy Waters-18th century Oil painting

oil painting on canvas -Unsigned
circa 1790s/1810s

frame size 31 … Read more Thomas Luny -Dutch Sailboats in Choppy Waters-18th century Oil painting

oil painting on canvas -Unsigned
circa 1790s/1810s

frame size 31 x 24"
canvas size 27 x 20"

Artist Biography
(1759 - 1837)
Thomas Luny was active/lived in United Kingdom.He is known for marine paintings .Thomas Luny was born in London in 1759. He was a student of and assistant to Francis Holman. His first exhibition, at age sixteen, was at the Society of Artists. In 1781 he established his own studio in Stepney. From 1780 to 1793 he exhibited yearly at the Royal Academy. The latter date seems to have been his last exhibition until 1802. In the interim he enlisted in the Royal Navy, serving as a purser under Captain George Tobin. Luny retired from the Navy by 1810, suffering from severe rheumatoid arthritis which confined him to a wheelchair and necessitated his holding a paintbrush in both hands or strapped to his wrist. Despite this disability, he painted over two thousand paintings between 1807 and 1835.
He kept an inventory of his work, recording the title and price of each and the name of the purchaser. His journal indicates that he was in Teignmouth in 1807, where he remained for the rest of his life. Toward the end of his career he hired an aissistant, Moses Gompertz, a painter of moving panoramas. Just before his death in 1837, one hundred thirty of Luny's works were exhibited in Old Bond Street. Today he is recognized as one of England's most acclaimed marine painters, with works in museums throughout England, Europe, and America.

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