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Thomas Luny

A British Frigate Backing Her Sails As She Heaves To Approaching Torbay With Other Ships Of The Flee Print by Thomas Luny

A British frigate backing her sails as she heaves to approaching Torbay with other ships of the flee

A Merchant Ship Signaling For A Pilot Off The Cliffs Of Dover Print by Thomas Luny

A merchant ship signaling for a pilot off the cliffs of Dover

The Destruction Of The Santo Domingo. The Battle Of Cape St Vincent 16th January 1780 Print by Thomas Luny

The Destruction of the Santo Domingo. The Battle of Cape St Vincent 16th January 1780

The Bombardment Of Algiers 27th August 1816 Print by Thomas Luny

The Bombardment of Algiers 27th August 1816

Thomas Luny

Naval Battle of Dogger Bank, August 5, 1781

Thomas Luny

Central view of the battle of Martinique, April 17, 1780

Thomas Luny

Blockade of Toulon, 1810-1814: Pellew's action, 5 November 1813

Thomas Luny

Cornwallis's Retreat, June 17, 1795

Thomas Luny

Earl of Pembroke, later HMS Endeavour, leaving Whitby Harbour in 1768

Thomas Luny

HMS Maria Anna, Earl of Chatham and Achilles off a coastal town

Thomas Luny

HMS Pomone off Greenwhich

Thomas Luny

General view of the first part of the Battle of Lagos, August 18, 1759 off the Portuguese coast. Seven Years' War.

Thomas Luny

Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 at 10 pm
Thomas Luny

Naval battle at Abukir

Thomas Luny

The East Indiaman 'Ceres' off the Spithead Depicted in Four Different Views

Thomas Luny

A 32-Gun Frigate taking in sail and other shipping off the coast

Thomas Luny
A British frigate backing her sails as she heaves-to approaching Torbay with other ships of the fleet beyond

Thomas Luny

A British Men-of-War surrounded by coastal craft

Thomas Luny

Men-of-War HMS Maria Anna, Earl of Chatham and Achilles off a coastal town

Thomas Luny

Shipping off Dover

Thomas Luny

Shortening sail off South Foreland

Thomas Luny

The Battle of The Saints, 12 April 1782

Thomas Luny

The bombardement of Algiers

Thomas Luny

The Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798

Thomas Luny

HMS 'Victorious' Taking the 'Rivoli', 22 February 1812

Thomas Luny

Self-portrait

Thomas Luny

The Port of London

Thomas Luny

An Indiaman and a Two Decker Hove to, Said to be Thomas Dumar, Esq. in H.M. Ship 'Portland' Delivering the Leeward Island Convoy, in 1776

Thomas Luny

A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland

Thomas Luny

The Lord North, Seen from Three Positions

Thomas Luny

Engagement between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron

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.

In September 1777, Luny left Holman's studio for a while, to journey to France. During this particular expedition, Luny almost certainly strayed from France itself; his first exhibited picture in London, seen at the Society of Artists that same year, was given the title A distant view of the island of Madeira and Porto Santo, suggesting that an engraving had inspired his choice of subject. Similarly, it is unlikely that Luny was on hand for the Battle of the Nile, 1798, and the bombardment of Algiers, 1816, both of which he illustrated with dramatic atmosphere and credible realism.


Bombardment of Algiers by Luny.

After leaving Holman's studio in 1780, Luny moved to Leadenhall Street during 1783. It was around this time that Luny was frequently exhibiting at the Royal Academy, in a total of twenty-nine exhibitions between 1780 and 1802. In Leadenhall Street, Luny became acquainted with a "Mr. Merle", a dealer and framer of paintings who promoted Luny's paintings for over twenty years, to great success. Luny also found a wealthy source of business in Leadenhall Street, where the British East India Company had their headquarters; their officers commissioned many paintings and portraits from Luny. This relationship between the Company and Luny also had several non-monetary benefits for Luny; it seems probable that, considering the great detail and realistic look of many of his sketches of locations such as Naples, Gibraltar, and Charleston, South Carolina, Luny was occasionally invited as a guest on the Company's ships on special occasions and voyages.[1]

Several years later, in 1807, Luny decided to move again, this time to Teignmouth in Devon. There he received a number of commissions (mostly from ex-mariners, local gentry and the like), and he continued to be as successful in his work as he had been in London. Luny was by that time suffering with arthritis in both of his hands. This had no obvious impact on the quality or pace of his artistic work. In fact, of his lifetime oeuvre of over 3,000 works, over 2,200 were produced between 1807 and his death.[2] He died on 30 September 1837.

Specimens 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 News, Virginia.


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Thomas Luny (British, 1759-1837)

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    Engagement Between Sir George Brydges Rodney and the Spanish Squadron, Commanded by Don Juan de Langara, Near Cape St. Vincent, 16 January 1780 - Rehs Galleries' biography on Thomas Luny and an image of his 1872 Royal Academy exhibition painting.

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