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Carle Vernet
Antoine Charles Horace Vernet aka. Carle Vernet (14 August 175817 November 1836) was a French painter, the youngest child of Claude Joseph Vernet, and the father of Horace Vernet.
Biography.
Vernet was born in Bordeaux. At the age of five, he showed an extraordinary passion for drawing horses, but went through the regular academical course as a pupil of his father and of Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié. Strangely, after winning the "grand prix" (1782), he seemed to lose
Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter" Holmes claims to be related to Vernet, stating, "My ancestors were country squires... my grandmother... was the sister of Vernet, the French artist.", without further clarifying whether this is Claude Joseph Vernet, Carle Vernet, or Horace Vernet.
Further reading.
- Dayot, Armand (1898). "Les Vernet : Joseph—Carle—Horace". Paris: A. Magnier.
- Harkett, Daniel and Katie