title: Monamy Swaine
text: # Monamy Swaine
  
  Monamy Swaine (c.1750–c.1800) was a British painter. His works are held in collections including the National Maritime Museum. His father was the artist Francis Swaine (c.1715-1782) and his mother, Mary, was the daughter of the artist Peter Monamy (1681-1749).
  
  Swaine specialised in still-life, genre paintings, and marine paintings. He exhibited at the Free Society of Artists from 1769 to 1774.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  Some of Swaine's paintings:
  
  * The Wreck of HMS 'Gloucester' off Yarmouth, 6 May 1682
  * A Whaling Scene
  * Moonlight Scene - Ships Saluting
  * An English Flagship Saluting
  * The Thames at Battersea, London
  * The 'Victory' Leaving the Channel in 1793
  