Paul Marny (1829–1914) was a British–French artist.

Life

Marny was born in Paris; his real name may have been Paul François or Charles Paul Goddard. He worked in the theatre, and as a porcelain decorator for the Sèvres factory, before moving to Belfast to work with a French architect. In 1860 he moved to Scarborough, at the suggestion of Oliver Sarony, the photographic pioneer and brother of

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. There he taught

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and other Scarborough artists. William Tindall was his brother-in-law. Marny exhibited at the

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. In 1874 the '' British Journal of Photography'' reported that 'A Gallic brother, M. Paul Marny Godard, of Paris, has obtained a patent for the application of carbon printing to porcelain or other similar substance, which, after the picture is developed, receives a coating of transparent enamel ...". He died in

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, on 24 October 1914.

Works

Marny was a watercolour and landscape artist, and a lithographer. He exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1857. He is known for his painting ''The Loss of the Scarborough Lifeboat'', which occurred on 2 November 1861, a subject also painted by

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, Ernest Roe and J. N. Carte. His work is in galleries in Birkenhead, Lincoln, Scarborough and Whitby. His painting ''Scarborough from White Nabb'', which is in

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, inspired Andrew Cheetham's ''North Bay''.http://www.andrewcheetham.com/node/299

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1829 births 1914 deaths 19th-century French painters French male painters 20th-century French painters 20th-century French male artists Ceramics decorators French emigrants to the United Kingdom Painters from Paris Artists from Scarborough, North Yorkshire 19th-century French male artists {{France-artist-stub