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Barque EMILY TAYLOR Entering Leghorn

Catalog no. 0001761

Size19 x 28 Inches

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About the artist

Michele Renault was a ship portrait artist in Livorno, Italy- a port sometimes referred to as "Leghorn". Renault often painted ship’s portraits for foreign ship captains while they were moored in Leghorn Harbor, particularly the English- a tradition he would pass to his son Luigi who was an artist famous in his own right for similar paintings. Popular with ship’s captains, particularly English and American, Renault primarily painted smaller ship’s portraits in a bright and detailed style. The ship would come into Livorno and the artist would create a portrait while she offloaded cargoes…

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