Born into a family of artists, Horace Vernet's profession seems to have been inevitable. His father, <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/carle-vernet">Carle Vernet</a> (1758-1836), was a painter and lithographer; his grandfathers were <a href=" https://findartvalue.com/artist/claude-joseph-vernet">Joseph Vernet</a> (1714-1789) and Jean-Michel Moreau the younger (1741-1814), and his uncle the