Cote and value of paintings by Louis Garneray

If you own a work by or based on the work of artist Ambroise Louis Garneray and would like to know its value, our state-approved experts and auctioneers will guide you. Our specialists will carry out a free appraisal of your work, and provide you with a precise estimate of its value on the current market. Thereafter, if you wish to sell your work, we will direct you to the best possible arrangement to obtain the optimum price.

Artist's rating and value

Ambroise Louis Garneray made his mark on the art scene thanks to the Napoleonic wars. His paintings were marketed and appreciated during his lifetime. Since then, the artist's market value has risen steadily. Among Garneray's works, the most sought-after are those depicting warships, often in oil on canvas. Thus, a work signed by the artist's hand can fetch tens of thousands of euros at auction, as evidenced by his painting La bataille de Navarin, which fetched €599,000 in 2024, whereas it was estimated at between €25,000 and €30,000, suggesting strong upside potential and a very high quotation in the future.

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The artist's works and style

The art market abounds with a large number of Garneray's graphic works. In addition to pencil drawings, his output includes a variety of watercolors.

The artist also produces oil paintings, which make up the bulk of his output, never neglecting the technical aspect in order to achieve the most realistic representation of warships possible.

Ambroise Louis Garneray, his life, his work

Ambroise Louis Garneray (1783-1857) was an English sailor, writer and marine painter of the First Empire period.

He devoted himself to painting after 1814, close to the Emperor Napoleon I, he received commissions from him - which he didn't carry out until the 1830s.

He was then employed by the Duc d'Angoulême, Grand Admiral of France. Throughout his life, he produced numerous canvases depicting different warships, traveling to many French ports.

Not just a painter, he was also a precursor of the maritime adventure novel through his writings. Appointed director of the Musée de Rouen, he also joined the Manufacture de Sèvres.

At the start of the Second Empire, he was again approached by Napoleon III for a number of commissions.

Claude Joseph Vernet and Nicolas Ozanne were to exert a major influence on his work.

After dividing his life between his activities as a privateer, writer and painter, he died in Paris at the age of 74.

Louis Garneray's imprint on his period

Louis Garneray was a recognized and important marine painter in England. His career as a sailor enabled him to get as close as possible to the equipment available to the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, and in this sense his works constitute considerable historical testimony.

Some of his works are exhibited by the National Maritime Museum in London, but it is private collectors who play the greatest role in preserving his work. 

His signature

Not all of Louis Garnearay's works are signed. Here's an example of his signature :

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