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Shipping off Genoa

Image credit: Sir Max Aitken Museum

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John Thomas Serres succeeded his father as marine painter to George III and indeed owed much of his success to his father's position and prestige. In 1800 he was appointed marine draughtsman to the Admiralty with responsibilities for drawings of coastlines to enable mariners to identify landfalls. His considerable success as a painter was somewhat overshadowed by his disastrous marriage to an immoral and extravagant women with delusions of grandeur. Her debts ruined Serres and he died in a debtors' prison.

Sir Max Aitken Museum

Cowes

Title

Shipping off Genoa

Date

1823

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 88.9 x W 116.8 cm

Accession number

25

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

J. T. Serres 1823

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