Shipwreck

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Shipwreck

1793

George Morland (English, 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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Object Details

Title:

Shipwreck

Date:

1793

Artist:

George Morland (English, 1763–1804)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

38 1/8 × 57 inches (96.8 × 144.8 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

The William L. Elkins Collection, 1924

Accession Number:

E1924-3-98

Geography:

Made in England, Europe

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