John Cleveley The Elder

Biography:

John Cleveley the Elder (c.1712 – 21 May 1777) was an English marine artist. Cleveley was born in Southwark. He was not from an artistic background, and his father intended him to follow the family trade of joinery, so he set up as a carpenter or shipwright in around 1742 at the Deptford Dockyard. Continuing his work in that area throughout his lif...