Vernet, Claude, French marine-painter, born at Avignon; executed more than 200 paintings, both landscape and sea pieces (1712-1789). Carlo, son of preceding, painter of battle-pieces, born at Bordeaux (1768-1833). Horace, son of latter, born in Paris, distinguished also for his battle-pieces in flattery of French Chauvinism (1789‒1863).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Verne, Jules * Vernon, Di