The school of Claude-Joseph Vernet (French: 1714-1789) refers to artists who copied the work of Vernet as part of their education in the 18th and 19th centuries. A common practice at the time, these works did not include a reproduction of the artist's signature, and were sometimes left entirely unsigned, to signify that the work was not meant as a forgery but as a study of a respected artist's technique.

Vernet was one of France's most celebrated maritime and landscape artists, known for his focus on dramatic skies and for his series of paintings that showed the four times of day: morning, afternoon, evening, and night.