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JOHN CHRISTIAN SCHETKY (1778-1874)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:CHRISTIAN See also:SCHETKY (1778-1874)  , Scottish marine painter, descended from an old Transylvanian See also:family, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 11th of See also:August 1778 . He studied See also:art under See also:Alexander See also:Nasmyth, and after having travelled on the See also:continent he settled in See also:Oxford, and taught for six years as a See also:drawing-See also:master . In 18o8 he obtained a See also:post in the military See also:college, See also:Great See also:Marlow, and three years later he was appointed See also:professor of drawing in the See also:naval college, See also:Portsmouth, where he had ample opportunities for the study of his favourite marine subjects . From 1836 to 1855 he held a similar professorship in the military college, Addiscombe . To the Royal See also:Academy exhibitions he contributed at intervals from 18o5 to 1872, and he was represented at the See also:Westminster See also:Hall competition of 1847 by a large oil-See also:painting of the See also:Battle of La Hogue . He was marine painter to See also:George IV., See also:William IV. and See also:Queen See also:Victoria . Among his published See also:works are the illustrations to See also:Lord See also:John See also:Manners's Cruise in Scotch See also:Waters, and a See also:volume of photographs from his pictures and drawings issued in 1867 under the See also:title of Veterans of the See also:Sea . One of his best works, the " Loss of the Royal George," painted in 184o, is in the See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London, and the See also:United Service See also:Club possesses another important marine subject from his See also:brush . He died in London on the 28th of See also:January 1874 . A memoir by his daughter was published in 1877 . His younger See also:brother, JOHN ALEXANDER See also:SCHETKY (1785-1824), studied See also:medicine in Edinburgh university and drawing in the Trustees' Academy . As a military surgeon he served with distinction under Lord See also:Beresford in See also:Portugal .

He contributed excellent works to the exhibitions of the Royal Academy and of the See also:

Water-See also:Colour Society, and executed some of the illustrations in See also:Sir W . See also:Scott's Provincial Antiquities . He died at Cape See also:Coast See also:Castle on the 5th of See also:September 1824, when preparing to follow Mungo See also:Park's route of exploration .

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