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    Thomas Luny (1759–1837), was an English artist who primarily painted seascapes and other marine-based works. Luny was born in Cornwall, probably at St...
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  • Whitcombe favoured a dark foreground. Whitcombe was, with Nicholas Pocock, Thomas Luny, Francis Holman and Robert Dodd, a leading maritime painter of the French...
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  • Look up luny in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Luny may refer to: Luny, from Luny Tunes Luny Unold (1920–2010), Swiss figure skater Thomas Luny (1759–1837)...
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    fourth-rate joined Nelson off Toulon. The fleet, under the command of Captain Thomas Troubridge, had been sent by Earl St. Vincent to reinforce Nelson, with...
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    Algiers is one of a number of oil-on-canvas paintings by British artist Thomas Luny depicting the heavy bombardment of the harbour of Algiers by a fleet...
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    was bombarded by a British squadron under Lord Exmouth (a descendant of Thomas Pellew, taken in an Algerian slave raid in 1715[self-published source?])...
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    (1939) 9#2 pp. 111–127, esp. p. 113 in JSTOR Israel (1995), pp. 999–1018. Thomas M. Lennon and Michael Hickson, "Pierre Bayle", The Stanford Encyclopedia...
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    Dogger Bank Part of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War The Battle of Dogger Bank, Thomas Luny Belligerents  Great Britain  Dutch Republic Commanders and leaders Hyde...
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    Here Nelson and Emma lived together openly, and were hosted by Thomas Troubridge and Thomas Graham. It was during this time that Nelson and Lady Emma Hamilton's...
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    seascape, with Bellerophon surrounded by crowds of people in small boats. Thomas Luny painted a similar scene, showing Bellerophon putting into Torbay to rendezvous...
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    Battle of the Nile, August 1st 1798, painting by Thomas Whitcombe The Battle of the Nile, engraving by Thomas Whitcombe The Battle of the Nile, painting by...
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     III (The wars of religion). Cambridge: University of Cambridge. Burman, Thomas E. (2022). The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650. Berkeley...
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    Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa's One Million European Slaves by Giles Milton (Sceptre, 2005) Zacks, Richard. The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson...
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    Kingdom, such as William Wilberforce, Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville and Thomas Clarkson, who founded the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave...
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    to the Elmar Digby furniture collection, paintings by, among others, Thomas Luny (1759–1837), and the Charles Paget Wade costume collection from Snowshill...
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    to traditional naval discipline. "Punished Henry Stephens, Seaman, and Thomas Dunster, Marine, with twelve lashes each for refusing to take their allowance...
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    James Saumarez the frigates HMS Emerald and HMS Terpsichore under Captains Thomas Moutray Waller and William Hall Gage and the sloop HMS Bonne Citoyenne under...
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    Bombardment of Algiers, a painting of the action by Thomas Luny...
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    Revolutionary War and the Anglo-Dutch Wars The Battle of Dogger Bank, Thomas Luny Belligerents  Great Britain  Dutch Republic France Commanders and leaders...
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    paintings are now sought after. He is also notable as the teacher of Thomas Luny. He was born in Ramsgate and baptised on 14 November 1729 at St Laurence-in-Thanet...
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    was originally the merchant collier Earl of Pembroke, built by Thomas Fishburn for Thomas Millner, launched in June 1764 from the coal and whaling Port...
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    Depiction of the Battle of the Saintes by Thomas Luny. Nauckhoff was severely wounded in the battle but also instrumental in saving the French ship Northumberland...
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    supported in this way by naval officers are (among others) Nicholas Pocock, Thomas Luny, and George Chambers. William Hodges, for example, who was trained to...
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    at Bitton House, which was then called West Cliff House. Meanwhile, Thomas Luny, the painter of seascapes, lived in the town for thirty years until his...
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    Wars The Blockade of Toulon, 1810-14: Pellew's Action, 5 November 1813, Thomas Luny Belligerents  United Kingdom  France Commanders and leaders Edward Pellew...
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  •  III (The wars of religion). Cambridge: University of Cambridge. Burman, Thomas E. (2022). The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650. Berkeley...
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    shown by Captain Luttrell ... deserve much approbation." Marine artists Thomas Luny and Dominic Serres created depictions of Mediator attacking the convoy...
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    The bombardment of Algiers, on the far left is HMS Leander, stationed ahead of the flagship HMS Queen Charlotte, painting by Thomas Luny...
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    Maritime Museum Rotterdam (the Netherlands) holds another painting by Thomas Luny of the seizure. Head of Collections of the Maritime Museum Rotterdam...
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    heading for the Atlantic. Several ships were left behind, under Vice-Admiral Thomas Brodrick, with orders to sail as soon as they could be made fit for sea...
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