# Help me find a painting **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2013, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-painting/674740 "2013-11-25T07:09:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![keeganst94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@keeganst94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keeganst94)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-painting/674740/1 "2013-11-25T07:09:45Z")
There’s a painting I’m trying to find, but I can’t remember the artist or the name of the painting, and I can’t seem to find it online. It’s been driving me insane. I’m pretty sure it’s an oil painting from the early 19th or late 18th century. I think the painter’s British but I’m not completely sure. It’s night in the painting and there’s a ship on fire at a dock. The painting’s from a perspective up an alleyway from the dock, and there are a few people milling around (at the alleyway and around the dock). What’s really memorable about it is the light. I’ve seen a few other paintings by the same guy, and he’s incredibly good at painting light. It kind of reminds me of [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_-_Fishermen_at_Sea_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) Hopefully I’m remembering it all right. Thanks for any help! ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-painting/674740/2 "2013-11-25T07:23:22Z")
[Ship on Fire at Night](http://www.amazon.co.uk/night-Charles-Brooking-Picture-Print/dp/B006ZWRY3S)? Charles Brooking, 1756. Doesn’t seem to have an alley perspective, though. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-a-painting/674740/3 "2013-11-25T15:11:49Z")
[C.-J. Vernet - Harbour Fire at Night](http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/cgi-bin/apod#rahmenanker), perhaps? **Emile Jean Horace Vernet** (1789 - 1863)