Emeric Essex Vidal was an English watercolourist and naval officer. His opportunities for travel, his curiosity about local customs and human types, and his eye for the picturesque, led him to make paintings which are now historical resources.
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Vidal later in life (daguerreotype)
La Patente, Soho. Fashionably dressed Huguenot churchgoers are contrasted with their depraved English neighbours. (William Hogarth, 1736)
Clyde (left), Vidal's first ship
HMS Asia, stern view. While serving as her purser Vidal was seriously wounded.
Commodore's House in the Naval Yard, Kingston, Upper Canada, July 1815 has been studied by military and architectural historians
Sackets Harbor (zoom in)
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About this person
Emeric Essex Vidal was an English watercolourist and naval officer. His opportunities for travel, his curiosity about local customs and human types, and his eye for the picturesque, led him to make paintings which are now historical resources. A landscape painter and a costumbrista, he was the first visual artist to leave records of the ordinary inhabitants of the newly emergent Argentina and Uruguay, including the first depictions of gauchos. He also left records of Canada, Brazil, the West Indies and St Helena, where he sketched the newly deceased Napoleon.
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