Browse DSIDetails of the item << Previous Next >> Serres Dominic D. S. ; Serres the Elder ; maritime painter & hydrographer ->John Thomas Serres (1759-1825) 1719 OR 1722 in Auch in Gascony, France 1793 D. S. was the nephew of the archbishop of Reims ; http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~londonaye/serres_family.htm trained as a painter in Northamptonshire and later in London under ->Charles Brooking United Kingdom maritime maps for Capt. Cunningham at HMS Clyde around 1800 ; Liber nauticus and instructor in the art of marine drawing (1805/06) ; Royal Academy (co-founder in 1768), Maritime Painter to King George III since 1780 ; British Institution (exhibitions) with his son ; maritime and geological oil painting, watercolour painting, and drawing, and oil painting ; cartographical map-making ; hand-colouring ; www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?record=ART372 ; http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch;searchTerm=serres ; http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/serres_dominic.html ; AKL ; DNB 51(1897 ; Alan Russett: D. S. War Artist to the Navy (2001) ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere. Hist. Seekarten (2007: 9) ; 18126281
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