Thomas Luny

1759 – 1837

English painter. He was a member of the Thames group of marine painters around Deptford, following the tradition of the van de Velde family, Dutch 17th-century marine painters. Luny was a pupil of Francis Holman (active 1760-1790) by 1773 and first exhibited in 1777 at the Society of Artists, showing Storm and Shipwreck (untraced). He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1780 until 1793 and then only in 1802 and in the year of his death. His absence from the Academy exhibitions after 1793 gave rise to the erroneous assumption of his enlistment in the navy during the Napoleonic conflict, but there is no mention of Luny in Admiralty records.

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