Auguste Étienne François Mayer

Auguste Étienne François Mayer was a French painter and lithographer who specialized in marine art, especially ships and naval battles. He participated in several Arctic scientific expeditions and painted scenes from these expeditions. He first exhibited an oil painting at the Paris Salon in 1824 and continued to exhibit there regularly through 1869.
Mayer traveled in the Netherlands, Sweden, and Norway and toured Turkey and Egypt in the company of Adrien Dauzats and Isidore Taylor. He taught drawing at the École Navale, holding an appointment as a professor. He became a Chevalier in the Legion of Honour on 2 January 1839 and rose to Officer of the Legion in 1867. He was born in Brest in 1805 and died there in 1890.