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Monamy Swaine (c.1750–c.1800) was a British painter. His works are held in collections including the
File:Monamy Swaine - The Wreck of HMS 'Gloucester' off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682 NMM BHC3370.jpg, The Wreck of HMS 'Gloucester' off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682
File:Monamy Swaine - A Whaling Scene NMM BHC1073.jpg, A Whaling Scene
File:Moonlight Scene - Ships Saluting NMM NMMG BHC1074.jpg, Moonlight Scene - Ships Saluting
File:Monamy Swaine - An English Flagship Saluting NMM BHC2234.jpg, An English Flagship Saluting
File:Monamy Swaine - The Thames at Battersea, London GAG 4189-001.jpg, The Thames at Battersea, London
File:Monamy Swaine (c.1750-c.1800) - The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel in 1793 - BHC3696 - Royal Museums Greenwich.jpg, The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel in 1793
Monamy Swaine
1750 births 1800 deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 18th-century British painters British marine artists {{UK-painter-stub
Monamy Swaine (c.1750–c.1800) was a British painter. His works are held in collections including the National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United ...
. His father was the artist Francis Swaine
Francis Swaine (1725–1782) was a British marine painter.
Early life
He was born in 1725, and christened on 7 October of that year at St Dunstan's, Stepney, London. His parents were named Francis Swaine and Ann Joel. In 1735 the elder Francis ...
(c.1715-1782) and his mother, Mary, was the daughter of the artist Peter Monamy
Peter Monamy was an English people, English Marine art, marine painting, painter who lived between 1681 and 1749.
Early life and family
Peter Monamy was baptised at the church of St Botolph's Aldgate, St Botolph's-without-Aldgate, London, ...
(1681-1749).
Swaine specialised in still-life, genre paintings, and marine paintings. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists
The Society of Artists of Great Britain was founded in London in May 1761 by an association of artists in order to provide a venue for the public exhibition of recent work by living artists, such as was having success in the long-established ...
from 1769 to 1774.
Gallery
Some of Swaine's paintings:References
External links
*Monamy Swaine
1750 births 1800 deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 18th-century British painters British marine artists {{UK-painter-stub