Joseph Vernet
(1714 - 1789)

 

Claude-Joseph Vernet was a French painter, born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet (1689–1753), a skilled decorative painter, in the most important parts of his work.

For twenty years Vernet lived in Rome, producing views of seaports, storms, calms, moonlights, and large whales, becoming especially popular with English aristocrats, many of whom were on the Grand Tour. In 1745, he married an Englishwoman whom he met in the city. In 1753, he was recalled to Paris: there, by royal command, he executed the series of the seaports of France (now in the Louvre and the Musée national de la Marine) by which he is best known.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude-Joseph_Vernet

The Waterfalls at Tivoli, with the Villa of Maecenas
around 1740-1750
Oil on canvas
height: 101 cm width: 138 cm
Mauritshuis, The Hague
https://www.mauritshuis.nl/ontdek-collectie/kunstwerken/293-de-watervallen-bij-tivoli-met-de-villa-van-maecenas/