Harbour Scene - Evening (after Claude-Joseph Vernet )

Charles François Genier de Lacroix, called Lacroix de Marseille (c.1700 - Berlin 1782) . Oil paintingo n canvas, Harbour Scene - Evening (after Claude-Joseph Vernet) by Charles François Lacroix (c.1700 - Berlin 1782), signed and dated on barrel: Gr De Lacroix fct Romae 1751. A copy of Vernet's P/121b in Dining Room. One of three excellent contemporary copies by a former assistant of Vernet, after the paintings in the Dining Room (NT/UPP/P/121a-d), perhaps commmissioned by Sir Matthew when Vernet himself was unable to produce original compositions. The fourth copy was lost in the fire at Uppark on 30th August 1989. Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex (Accredited Museum)