12 Facts About Peter Monamy

Peter Monamy was an English marine painter who lived between 1681 and 1749.

Peter Monamy's name seems to be of French origin, and it is probable that he was of French descent.

The Peter Monamy family had been prominent merchants and residents of Guernsey since the 1560s, and in the Channel Islands since at least the 1530s.

Andrew Peter Monamy is named in Admiralty archival records as having served as boatswain in 1710 on a 20 gun privateer named "La Chasse", owned by a syndicate of Guernsey merchants.

In Wine and Walnuts, William Henry Pyne mentions that Peter Monamy served his apprenticeship on London Bridge, and that he exhibited his works in the window of his shop.

Peter Monamy is repeatedly mentioned in later accounts as having owned a shop on London Bridge.

Peter Monamy's standing as a Liveryman of the Painter-Stainer's Company in 1726 was cemented by the donation to Painter's Hall of what was described by Thomas Pennant as "a fine piece of shipping", which is still in situ.

Peter Monamy supplied at least four prominently displayed naval scenes for the Gardens.

Those engravings executed during Peter Monamy's lifetime are an excellent guide to the genuine manner of his oeuvre.

Peter Monamy painted numerous versions of Admiral Vernon's capture of Porto Bello, including a canvas for public display at Vauxhall Gardens.

Peter Monamy continued as the marine painter most esteemed by active serving seamen, even during his slow financial decline and loss of aristocratic patronage, and for many decades after his death.

Peter Monamy Swaine followed his father and grandfather as a marine painter.