Ambroise Louis Garneray
Ambroise Louis Garneray (born February 19, 1783 in Paris , † September 11, 1857 there ) was a French marine painter , engraver , naval officer, privateer and writer .
Life
Garneray learned from his father Jean-François Garneray (1755-1837), who in turn was a pupil of Jacques Louis David . At the age of 13 in 1796 he was hired by the French Navy and sailed with a fleet in the Indian Ocean , where in the following years he took part in numerous sea battles against the British Navy and experienced several shipwrecks. As a privateer and slave trader, he led an adventurous life and finally fell into the hands of the British as the helmsman of the Belle Poule in the battle of the Cape Verde Islands (1806). He spent the years 1806 to 1814 as a prisoner of war in Porthsmouth.
During this time he began to devote himself to painting again. After his return to France he was appointed peintre du Duc d'Angoulême, grand amiral d France , that is, the official painter of Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême, who was appointed Admiral of France in 1814 . In 1816 he exhibited his first naval piece .
In 1833 he became director of the Museum of Rouen and later also worked for the porcelain factory in Sèvres .
As a writer, Garneray is considered to be an early representative of the genre of sea adventure stories. His stories about the naval war in the Indian Ocean and his imprisonment only became popular when they were published posthumously from the 1860s onwards in a heavily revised form with spectacular elements added.
Works (selection)
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painting
- His paintings are in almost all major French art museums. He aquatinted some of them himself .
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Fonts
- Vues des ports et rades des côtes de la France . Découvrance Éditions, Rennes 2000, ISBN 2-8426-5125-1 (reprint of the Paris edition 1815–32).
literature
- Martine Acerra (ed.): La France maritime au début du XIXe siècle. Paints, aquatints and gravures by Louis Garneray . Édition du Layeur, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-911468-61-9 .
- François Beaudouin (Ed.): Louis Garneray. Pêche à la morue, pêche au hareng . Musée Municipaux, Fécamp 2000, ISBN 2-908858-23-1 .
- Laurent Manœvœ: Louis Garneray. Peintre, écrivain, aventurier . Edition Anthèse, Arcueil 1997, ISBN 2-904420-94-0 .
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| SURNAME | Garneray, Ambroise Louis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garneray, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French marine painter and engraver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1783 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 11, 1857 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |