Vernet (lived 18th century)

Family of French painters. Claude Joseph (1714–1789) was a marine painter; his son Antoine Charles Horace (known as Carle) (1758–1836), a painter of horses and battle scenes; and Carle's son Emile Jean Horace (1789–1863), a military and sporting painter.

Claude Joseph Vernet studied under his father Antoine, and worked in Italy 1734–52. He was made a member of the French Academy on his return 1753, subsequently travelling in France until 1762 to paint a series of French seaports (Louvre, Paris) commissioned by Louis XV. He settled finally in Paris. His marine pictures (storms, moonlight, rocky coasts) have a Romantic feeling.

Carle Vernet was a painter of horses and battle scenes, also of note for his caricatures of dandies and fashion victims.

His son Emile Jean Horace Vernet, a friend of the Romantic artist Théodore Géricault, was a prolific military painter, depicting scenes of the Napoleonic era, and a sporting painter.