Vernet meaning

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Claude-Joseph Vernet (b: Avignon, 14 Aug 1714; d: Paris, 4 Dec 1789).  Painter.

1. Life and Work.  (i) Early years and Rome, to1753.

   Vernet probably received his first lessons in painting from his father, Antoine, who then encouraged him to move to the studio of Philippe Sauvan (1697-1792), the leading master in Avignon.  Sauvan supplied altarpieces to local churches and decorative works and mythologies for grand houses in the area.  After this apprenticeship Vernet worked in Aix-en-Provence with the decorative painter Jacques Viali (1681 1745), who also painted landscapes and marine pictures.  In 1731 Vernet independently produced a suite of decorative overdoors for the hôtel of the Marquise de Simiane at Aix-en-Provence; at least two of these survive and are Vernet's earliest datable landscapes.  These are early indications of his f Claude joseph vernet signature.