View of the Bay of Naples by Alessandro La Volpe Italian, 1877

Two charming views of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius by Maria Gianni, goache on paper, one showing fishing boats sailing into harbour and the other with a woman in a white smock carrying a basket in the crook of her arm and another on her head. Italian, early 20th century. Maria Ada Gianni...

A fine 19th century watercolor of the three masted sailing ships The SS City of Manchester. Taken from Wikipedia, The SS City of Manchester was an iron-hulled single screw liner bui...

Clarkson Stanfield: The Gulf of Salerno This oil painting on canvas shows commercial shipping and fishermen in the Gulf of Salerno. The tower at Vietri is visible in the background...

George Edward Horton: The Launch of H.M.S. ‘Victoria’ from the Elswick shipyard of Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1887, watercolour and pencil heig...

An American reverse-glass painting of the ship ‘Hurricane’ of Boston, of rectangular form showing a three masted sailing ship flying the Stars and Stripes and signalling flags from h...

‘The Forest Road, Boldrewood, Hampshire’ by Montague Dawson, oil on canvas, showing a road winding past a stand of tall conifers. Signed, framed and glazed, a paper label on the rev...

"View of Pompeii" Oil on canvas. Signed Alessandro La Volpe (1820-1867) Period frame

Vintage oil painting on canvas of fisherman in the bay of Naples.

Antique Bay of Naples Gouache Seascape with Vesuvius Erupting, 1906, a fine gouache on paper seascape with the panoramic Bay of Naples stretching wide, wit...

Y. Gianni (Italian) The Gulf of Naples, 19th Century. A beautiful signed "Y. Gianni" gouche on paper, framed and matted with description & name on matti...

Unpei Kameyama (1821-1899) A view of black (American) ships in the bay of Uraga Senminato, Miura district, June 1853 The Japanese text reads: ‘The seventy-six old men for the Kitamura-clan, drawn in 1897 on request of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji, the black ships which so much changed the fate of Japan, enjoy please this masterpiece by Harima Shonin Bisei who brings back memories of his young days.’ Watercolour on paper, laid down on cardboard, H. 44.5 x W. 115.5 cm Provenance: Collection of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji Yoshisada Kitamura (1838-1899), the son of a farmer in the village of Ogawa, in the district of Harimakashikihigashi, studied under Matajiro Otaka and got heavily involved in the anti-Shogunate movement. He was active in several military incidents against the Shogunate. After the Meiji restoration, he served the Meiji government as a local official in the Himeji domain. Kameyama Unpei was a Confucian scholar, a Shinto priest...

Wonderful portrait of a young noblewoman signed by the great Italian artist Vincenzo Volpe in lavish costume communicates her social status. Oil on board The very elegant posture of...