VERNET, Jean Emile Horace, commonly called ulioance Vatatrr.)) French painter: b. Paris, 30 June 1789; d. there, 17 Jan. 1863. He was the grandson of Claude Joseph Vernet (q.v.), and son of Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, better known as Carle Vernet (q.v.). His first master in art was his father and even at 13 he could support himself by the payments received for his drawings. He studied also under designer Moreau, the architect Clialgrin. and the painter Vincent. His (Capture of a Re doubt) (1709) took the public by storm; it was a new departure from the frigid classi calism of Davtd and was alive with modern feeling and realistic life. On the hopes lcindled by this success he married, opened a studio, and established a manner of his own. He be came the first representative in art of the Napoleonic war spint with all its swagger and chauvinism, and offended the government of the Restoration by his anti-monarchical cari catures, so that in 1822 his works were ex cluded from the exhibition; this induced him to open a picture-gallery of his own which was very successful. His increasing'popularity
at last induced Charles X to appoint him to the directorship of the French Academy in Rome, a post which he ably filled till the end of 1834. On his return to Paris, Louis Philippe com missioned him to paint the historical galleries of the museum of Versailles, a task which occupied him five years. Among the most re markable of the pictures are (The Occupation of Ancona); (The Assault of the Town of Constantine in Africa); (The Attack of the Citadel of Antwerp); (The Fleet Forcing the Tagus); (The Dog of the Regiment); (The Soldier of Waterloo); (The Battles of Jemap pee ; (Montmirail) • (Fontenoy); (Wagram); (The Capture of fa-Smala); (The Prayer in the Desert); (The Council of Arabs.) His last great picture was (The Battle of the Alma.) Consult Rees, (Vernet et Delaroche) (1880) ; and Dayot, A., (Les Vernet) (1898).