1793
Shipwreck
George MorlandEnglish, 1763 - 1804
George Morland learned the recipe for marine disaster painting from the work of Claude-Joseph Vernet and Vernet’s followers in England (Vernet was the most important marine and landscape painter in eighteenth-century France). Using English scenery and outlaw characters, including smugglers and “wreckers” who salvaged the debris of a shipwreck, Morland took the basic structure of Vernet’s work and made it local, contemporary, and more naturalistic.
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