Not too much is known about the youth of Thomas Luny. They only know his year of birth and know that he is from Cornwall, possibly from the parish of St Ewe. In any case, the sea was very close where he grew up. So it can be explained that from childhood on he was fascinated by the wet element and seascapes. Already at the age of 11, little Luny came to London to be apprenticed to the painter Francis Holman, who came from a family of shipowners and whose paintings were almost exclusively concerned with the sea and the coasts. It was from this first teacher, with whom he stayed for 10 years, that Luny's lifelong enthusiasm for seascapes most probably originated. At the age of 18 he exhibited his first painting at the Society of Artists London. It was entitled "A Distant View of Madeira Island and Porto Santo". It is very unlikely that he ever saw Madeira with his own eyes. Rather, he was inspired by an engraving. This is how he later created a painting of a battle on the Nile and the bombing of Algiers. In both places, he was probably not personal. However, during his time with Holman, he once travelled through France.
After leaving the studio of his teacher and mentor in 1870, Thomas Luny moved to London's Leadenhall Street. Here he met a Mr Merle. He was a shrewd trader and a kind of artist's agent. The painter owed him a very successful marketing of his paintings for 20 years. During this time, he also exhibited many of his works at the Royal Academy. The residence Leadenhall Street proved to be another advantage. The British East India Company also had its headquarters in the house and their officers liked to buy his paintings and had themselves and their families portrayed by him. They even took him on their ships a few times, so he came to Gibraltar and Naples once.
At the age of about 50 Thomas Luny moved from London to Teignmouth in Devon. At that time he was already suffering from health problems and had arthritis in both hands. Nevertheless, he continued to be very productive and painted until his death in 1837, his work comprises about 3,300 paintings.
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.jpg "The Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of Doggerbank, 5 August 1781 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeating Admiral M. de Conflans in the Bay of Biscay by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Shipping off Plymouth Sound by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The capture of the French ship")
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.jpg "The East India Company ship")
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.jpg "Loss of an Indiaman Ship, the")
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.jpg "The East India Company Trading Ship")
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.jpg "The Battle of Algiers: The Bombardment, 1824 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "HMS Spartan & French Frigates: Beginning of the Action, 3rd May 1810 (Bay of Naples) by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The")
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.jpg "Action off the coast of France, 13th May 1779 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Fisherfolk on a Beach, with Vessels Offshore by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Westminster Bridge and the Burning of the Houses of Parliament from Lambeth, 1835 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "HMS")
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.jpg "Three British Frigates Offshore by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Burning of Drury Lane Theatre from Westminster Bridge by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Pool of London, c. 1805 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Bay of Naples from Posillipo by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Shipping in an Estuary by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of Dogger Bank, 1781 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Merchant Vessels off the Coast, 1783 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Brig Entering Dartmouth Harbour, with a Ferry in the Foreground, 1828 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "East Indiaman Ceres off St Helena, 1788 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "East India Companys Packet Swallow, 1788 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1509650).jpg "A cutter passing astern of a frigate, early 19th century by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The 12th Duke of Norfolk")
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.jpg "An Indiaman and a Two Decker Hove to, Said to be Thomas Dumar, Esq. in H.M. Ship Portland Delivering... by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Defence of Gibraltar by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Secluded Cove by Thomas Luny")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-905096).jpg "The Battle of Algiers, 27th August 1816 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Bombardment of Algiers, August 1816 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Honourable E.I. Company")
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.jpg "The Battle of the Dogger Bank, 5 August 1781 by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Two-Decker Anchored in Torbay Harbour, with a Cutter in the Foreground by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Seascape by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "An armed Xebec in the Mediterranean, a British frigate off her stern and running past a rocky coastline by Thomas Luny")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-176353).jpg "HMS Gore in Action With the French Brigs")
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.jpg "Teignmouth by moonlight by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "An Indiaman and a Two Decker Hove to, Said to be Thomas Dumar, Esq. in H.M. Ship")
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.jpg "An Indiaman in Stays, and Boats off the South Coast by Thomas Luny")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1315898).jpg "A Three Master adrift in the Downs with help at Hand by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "H.M.S. Caledonia Chasing the French Squadron into Toulon by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Port of London by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Dutch coastal craft with an English frigate at anchor in a gale off Harwich by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Off the Squadron, Cowes by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The U.S. Ship Granville off Deptford by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Babbacombe Beach, Devon by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Shipwreck of an East India Company Trading Ship")
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.jpg "A Frigate, A Lugger and Merchant Ship in Dartmouth Harbour by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Shipwreck by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Coastal Scene by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "St. Michael")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Running Before a Stiff Breeze - North Foreland, Coast of Kent by Thomas Luny")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1132253).jpg "Two Deckers Lying off Berry Head by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Boarding the Ferry at Teignmouth by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Rodney")
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.jpg "HMS")
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.jpg "A Devonshire Inlet with Fishermen Unloading Their Catch onto the Foreshore by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "HMS Gore in Action With the French Brigs Palinure and Pilade by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Unloading the Catch by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of Lagos by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Plymouth Sound by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Sea Battle by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of Navarino, 20 October 1827 by Thomas Luny")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-384192).jpg "Battle of the Nile by Thomas Luny")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1506634).jpg "A Brixham trawler running into Torbay, early 19th century by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Brigantine in Full Sail in Dartmouth Harbour by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Siege of Toulon by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of Toulon by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Port of London by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Shipping off Dover by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Loss of an Indiaman ship, the")
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.jpg "Shipping off Ramsgate Harbour by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Shipping in a Windswept Bay with Men Working on the Shore by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Rights of Man by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "HMS Maria Anna-Earl of Chatham-Achilles by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Men-of-War and Other Ships in a Breeze off Dover by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Packet Boat Under Sail in a Breeze off the South Foreland by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Breezy Day by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "British Men of War and Other Shipping off Portsmouth Harbour by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of the Nile by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "A Merchant Ship in two Positions by an Estuary off the South West Coast by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "M.S. Caledonia and H.M.S. Boyne Chasing the French Fleet into Toulon by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of The Saints by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "On the Dart near Dittisham by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Battle of Trafalgar by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "View up the Teign by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "The Battle of the Saints by Thomas Luny")
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.jpg "Hauling a Boat Ashore off Dover Harbour by Thomas Luny")
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