Louis-Philippe Crépin

Before that, he had been a sailor with four years of experience as a helmsman and gabier [fr] (a seaman in charge of the sails).

At the age of fifty-eight, in part due to a bit of self-promotion, he was appointed as one of the first two official marine painters of the French government.

That same year, together with the much younger painters Eugène Isabey and Léon Morel-Fatio, he took part in the Invasion of Algiers.

Until 1834, it was hung in the former residence of the Empress at the Château de Saint-Cloud, then was transferred to Versailles by King Louis Philippe I.

He also was one of the fourteen artists who contributed to Episodes maritimes, along with Garneray, Gudin, Isabey, Biard and others, who have largely been forgotten.

Naval Battle for the Islands of Loz, 7 February 1813 .