WPeintre de la Marine is a title awarded by the minister of defence in France to artists who have devoted their talents to the sea, the French Navy and other maritime subjects. It was set up in 1830 by the July Monarchy and can be awarded to painters, photographers, illustrators, engravers, and sculptors.
WYann Arthus-Bertrand is an environmentalist, activist, journalist and photographer. He has also directed films about the impact of humans on the planet. He is especially well known for his book Earth from Above (1999) and his films Home (2009) and Human (2015). It is because of this commitment that Yann Arthus-Bertrand was designated Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme on Earth Day.
WPierre Bodard was a French painter, best known for his scenes depicting the West Indies.
WEugène Henri Alexandre Chigot was a post impressionist French painter. A pupil of his father, the military painter Alphonse Chigot, in 1881 he entered the internationally renowned École des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he was exposed to the ideas of the realist movement of the Barbizon School and to Impressionism. He settled in Étaples in the Pas-de-Calais in an artists’ colony, later returning to Paris where he became a founder of the Salon d’Automne. An official military painter he painted a series of canvases in Calais and Nieuport recording the destruction caused by the First World War.
WLouis-Philippe Crépin was a French marine painter. Together with Théodore Gudin, he was appointed as one of France's first two Peintres de la Marine in 1830.
WEugène-Baptiste Émile Marie Dauphin was a French marine artist and landscape painter.
WJean Antoine Théodore Gudin was a French marine painter. Along with Louis-Philippe Crépin, he became one of the first two official Peintres de la Marine in 1830.
WMathurin Méheut was a French painter, ceramist, engraver, and etcher best known for his depictions of Breton scenes, the sea, and nature.
WAntoine Léon Morel, later Morel-Fatio (1810–1871) was a French naval painter, Peintre officiel de la Marine, curator of the naval and ethnographic museum of the Louvre, and mayor of the 20th arrondissement of Paris. He added Fatio in 1844 to distinguish himself from a businessman of the same name. It was apparently in reference to a Swiss branch of the family.
WJohn Pendray,, is a Franco-British painter. Graduated from the Saint Martin School of Art and the University of London Institute of Pedagogy, he taught painting, sculpture and ceramics during 11 years. Then he moved to Marseille, France, where he first worked as an independent designer. He's a professional painter since 1990. In 2000 he obtained French nationality and, in 2001 he was appointed Official Painter of the French Navy.
WPaul Victor Jules Signac was a French Neo-Impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the Pointillist style.
WFélix Ziem was a French painter in the style of the Barbizon School, who also produced some Orientalist works.