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Pierre-Julien Gilbert
Pierre-Julien Gilbert (1783 in Brest – 1860 in Brest) was a French painter who specialised in naval scenes. Gilbert was a pupil of Pierre Ozanne and Louis-Philippe Crépin. He taught painting at the École Navale from 1816, and was admitted to accompany the Navy during the Invasion of Algiers in 1830. Gilbert was professor of drawing at the Naval School of Brest. Image:Canonniere.jpg, alt=The Action of 21 April 1806 as depicted by Pierre-Julien Gilbert. In the foreground, HMS ''Tremendous'' aborts her attempt at raking '' Cannonière'' under the threat of being outmanoeuvered and raked herself by her more agile opponent. In the background, the Indiaman ''Charlton'' fires her parting broadside at ''Cannonière''. The two events were in fact separated by several hours., The Action of 21 April 1806. In the foreground, HMS ''Tremendous'' aborts her attempt at raking '' Cannonière'' under the threat of being outmanoeuvered and raked herself by her more agile opponent. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Ozanne
Pierre Ozanne (Brest, 1737–Brest, 1813 ) was a French naval artist and engineer, brother of Nicolas Ozanne. Biography From 1750, Ozanne was schooled at the ''Ecole des Gardes de la Marine'', ancestor of the École Navale, and in Paris, where he was a pupil of Duhamel du Monceau. He returned to Brest in 1764 with a commission of drawing professor at the naval academy. From 1771 to 1772, he took part in a scientific expedition on the frigate , and in 1776, on the ''Boussole''. After the start of the American war of Independence, Ozanne served on ''Languedoc The Province of Languedoc (; , ; oc, Lengadòc ) is a former province of France. Most of its territory is now contained in the modern-day region of Occitanie in Southern France. Its capital city was Toulouse. It had an area of approximately ...'' and on the ''Vautour''. In 1788, he directed the plans of the 74-gun , earning a commission of naval engineer in the process. Ozanne contributed to the propaganda of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:French Frigate Magicienne (1778)
''Magicienne'' was a frigate of the French Navy, lead ship of her class. The British captured her in 1781 and she served with the Royal Navy until her crew burned her in 1810 to prevent her capture after she grounded at Isle de France (now Mauritius). During her service with the Royal Navy she captured several privateers and participated in the Battle of San Domingo. French service and capture ''Magicienne'' was built to a design by Joseph-Marie-Blaise Coulomb at Toulon. She was the first of 12 vessels built to her design. She served in Orvilliers' fleet under Chevalier de Boades, and later under Captain Janvre de la Bouchetière captured her on 2 September 1781 off Cape Ann. In the action the French lost 60 men killed and 40 wounded, including Ensign Dethan killed and La Bouchetière wounded ; the British lost one man killed and one man wounded. She was described as being of 800 tons, 36 guns and 280 men. A prize crew took her to Halifax, where she was recommissione ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1783 Births
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French Male Painters
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19th-century French Painters
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:en:French Corvette Revenant
''Revenant'' was a 20-gun privateer corvette, launched in 1807, and designed by Robert Surcouf for commerce raiding. The French Navy later requisitioned her and renamed her ''Iéna'', after Napoleon's then-recent victory at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt. The British captured her in 1808 and she served in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Victor''. The French Navy recaptured her in 1809, taking her back into service under the new name. The British again captured her when they took Isle de France (now Mauritius) in December 1810. They did not restore her to service, and she was subsequently broken up. Career Her coppered hull allowed her to sail at up to 12 knots. Her cost was 277,761 francs-or. One of her owners was the banker Jacques Récamier. Indian ocean cruises (1807 - 1808) In February 1807, Surcouf enlisted Potier as first officer on his new privateer ''Revenant''.Cunat, p.412 ''Revenant'' then departed from Saint-Malo on 2 March, and sailed for Isle de France. ''Revenant'' ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:French Frigate Minerve (1809)
The French frigate ''Minerve'' was originally launched in 1788 for the Portuguese Navy, where she served under the dual names of ''Nossa Senhora da Vitória'' and ''Minerva''. The French Navy captured and renamed her in November 1809, after which she played a notable role in the Indian Ocean campaign of 1809-1811, participating in the defeat of a Royal Navy frigate squadron at the Battle of Grand Port, but at the surrender of Mauritius in December 1810, the ship was handed over to the British, and seems to have been broken up soon afterwards. Design and construction The ''Nossa Senhora da Vitória'' was built at Lisbon by the shipbuilder Torcato Jose Clavina, and launched on 18 July 1788, or according to some other sources, 19 July in the same year. A standard modern work on the Portuguese navy of this period states the ship's hull length at 156 feet 9 inches, and her beam (the breadth of the hull) at a very wide 58 feet. Conversely, an equivalent work quoting French source ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:French Frigate Bellone (1807)
''Bellone'' was a 44-gun ''Consolante''-class frigate of the French Navy. French service ''Bellone'', under the command of Guy-Victor Duperré, departed Saint-Malo on 18 January 1809, bound for the Indian Ocean. She sailed from La Réunion for a combat patrol in August. On 2 November she captured HMS ''Victor''. Twenty days later, she captured the 48-gun Portuguese ''Minerva'' after a 2-hour battle. ''Bellone'' sailed back to La Réunion with her prize, arriving on 2 January 1810. In April 1810, the squadron comprising ''Bellone'', ''Minerve'' and ''Victor'' departed for another patrol, during which they fought the action of 3 July 1810 and the Battle of Grand Port. ''Bellone'' was surrendered to the British when Île de France fell, on 4 December 1810. British service ''Bellone'' was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS ''Junon''. In June 1812, ''Junon'' escorted a convoy from Portsmouth to India. On 8 February 1813, nine boats and 200 men of the squadron of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:French Frigate Néréide (1779)
''Néréide'' was a , 32-gun, copper-hulled frigate of the French Navy. On 22 December 1797 captured her and she was taken into British service as HMS ''Nereide''. The French recaptured her at the Battle of Grand Port, only to lose her again when the British took Isle de France (now Mauritius), in 1810. After the Battle of Grand Port she was in such a poor condition that she was laid up and sold for breaking up in 1816. French service On 6 June 1780, along with (74 guns), ''Néréide'' captured a British privateer, the 10-gun cutter ''Prince of Wales'' off Madeira. ''Néréide'' was part of the fleet of Lamotte-Picquet that sailed from Brest and on 2 May 1781 captured 18 ships in a convoy from Sint Eustatius. In 1782, she served in the Caribbean under Vaudreuil. From 1788, ''Néréide'' served off Africa. She then underwent a refit in Rochefort in October 1794. On 20 December 1797, she was sailing off the Isles of Scilly under the command of Lieutenant de Vaisseau Chass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:HMS Sirius (1797)
HMS ''Sirius'' was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. Between 1797 and 1805, the ''Sirius'' was engaged in maintaining the blockade of Napoleonic Europe. She was lost in 1810 when her crew scuttled her after she grounded during the Battle of Grand Port. Design The Admiralty ordered her construction on 30 April 1795, and the keel was laid at the Dudman's yard at Deptford Wharf in September of that year. She was launched on 12 April 1797. The ''Sirius'' class of 1795 was established following the taking of the ''San Fiorenzo'' from the Spanish in 1794, upon whose lines this frigate was based. French Revolutionary Wars ''Sirius'' was commissioned in May 1797 under the command of Captain Richard King. In her first action on 24 October 1798 ''Sirius'' took two Dutch frigates, the ''Waakzaamheid'' and the ''Furie'' in the Texel. ''Waakzaamheid'' was under the command of Senior Captain Neirrop. She was armed with twenty-four 9-pounder guns on her main deck an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
:en:HMS Iphigenia (1808)
HMS ''Iphigenia'' was a Royal Navy 36-gun ''Perseverance''-class fifth-rate frigate. She was built at Chatham Dockyard by Master Shipwright Robert Seppings. The French captured her at the debacle of Grand Port and in their service she participated in the capture of several British vessels. The British recaptured her and she served in the West Africa squadron (or "Preventative Squadron"), combating the slave trade. She was broken up in 1851 after serving for many years as a training ship. British service Captain Henry Lambert commissioned ''Iphigenia'' and on 28 January 1809 sailed her to the Cape of Good Hope and Bombay. On 13 September she was at Bombay where her crew helped fight, albeit unsuccessfully, the fire on . In 1810 she joined the British squadron off Isle de France (now Mauritius). The squadron consisted of ''Iphigenia'', ''Leopard'', '' Magicienne'' and '' Néréide''. The squadron blockaded Isle de France from May, and started operations to attempt a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis-Philippe Crépin
Louis-Philippe Crépin (1772, Paris – 26 November 1851, Paris) was a French marine painter. Together with Théodore Gudin, he was appointed as one of France's first two Peintres de la Marine in 1830.Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts; ''Réunion des sociétés des beaux-arts des départements'', vol.27e, 1903, Noémi-Noire Oursel, editoOnline/ref> Biography He studied marine painting with Joseph Vernet and landscapes with Hubert Robert. Before that, he had been a sailor with four years of experience as a helmsman and (a seaman in charge of the sails). He had his first exhibit at the Paris in 1796 with "La sortie du port de Brest". He would hold showings there intermittently until 1835. As early as 1817, he received a letter from the "Ministre de la Marine et des Colonies", Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, giving him a twenty-year commission to create marine paintings for the government; especially the Ministère de la Marine, where he set up a workshop. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
