(b Paris, 30 June 1789; d Paris, 17 Jan 1863). Painter, son of (2) Carle Vernet. He was born in his father’s lodgings at the Palais du Louvre, where his grandfather (1) Joseph Vernet also lived; his maternal grandfather was Jean-Michel Moreau. To these antecedents and influences are ascribed the supreme ease of his public career, his almost incredible facility and his fecundity. His early training in his father’s studio was supplemented by formal academic training with François-André Vincent until 1810, when he competed unsuccessfully for the Prix de Rome. He first exhibited at the Salon in 1812. In 1814 Vernet received the Légion d’honneur for the part he played in the defence of Paris, which he commemorated in the Clichy Gate: The Defence of Paris, 30 March 1814 (1820; Paris, Louvre; see fig.), a spirited painting that represented a manifesto of Liberal opposition to Restoration oppression.

Part of the Vernet family

• Vernet, (Emile-Jean-)Horace
  • Moreau
  • Vernet
  • assistants
    • Barker: (3) Thomas Jones Barker
  • collaboration
    • Lecomte, Hippolyte
  • groups and movements
    • Orientalism, §1: Introduction
    • Orientalism, §2(i): Secular history painting
    • Orientalism, §2(ii): Religious works
    • Romanticism, §3(ii): Manifestations in art: Painting
  • patrons and collectors
    • Blacas d’Aulps, Pierre-Louis-Jean-Casimir
    • France, §III, 5(i): Painting & graphic arts, c 1814–c 1914: The search for a subject-matter
    • Orléans, House of: (7) Louis-Philippe, King of the French
    • Seymour-Conway: (2) Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
  • pupils
    • Agasse, Jacques-Laurent
    • Américo de Melo, Pedro
    • Belarus’, §II: Painting and graphic arts
    • Clays, Paul-Jean
    • Dietz, Feodor
    • Israëls: (1) Jozef Israëls, §1: Life and work
    • Janet-Lange
    • Lami, Eugène
    • Langlois, Charles
    • Robert-Fleury: (1) Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
    • Tayler, Frederick
    • Wappers, Gustaf
    • Bonhommé, (Ignace-)François
      • Bonhommé, François
  • reproductive prints by others
    • Aubry-Lecomte, Hyacinthe
    • Girardet, Edouard
    • Jazet, Jean-Pierre-Marie
  • studio
    • Studio, §II, 3: History and development, c 1800–c 1900
  • teachers
    • Moreau: (2) Jean-Michel Moreau
  • works
    • Allegory, §VI: Romanticism, Realism and decline
    • Animal subjects, §4: 19th century and after
    • Book illustration, §IV, 2: 19th century: France, the USA and elsewhere
    • Frame, §III, 10: France: Bourbon Restoration
    • France, §III, 5(iii): Painting & graphic arts, c 1814–c 1914: Influence of the studios
    • Lithography, §II, 1(iii): Invention and incunabula, before c 1818: France
    • Lithography, §II, 2(ii)(a): Fine art developments, 1818–89
    • Master printers, §II: The influence of lithography
    • Schroth, Claude
    • Taylor, Isidore-Justin-Séverin
    • Vernet: (1) Joseph Vernet, §2: Critical reception and posthumous reputation