Basi Ivancovich (Italian/Austrian 1815-1898) S.S. Oswestry John Wesley McDonald Master.

Basi Ivancovich (Italian/Austrian, 1815-1898) S. S. Oswestry, John Wesley McDonald Master. Signed and dated "Ivancovich 1894" l.r., titled below. Oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 29 in., in a period gilt-gesso frame. Condition: Relined, scattered retouch. Note: The S.S. Oswestry was built in 1888 by Furness Withy of Hartlepool, England, for Siveright, Bacon & Co. In March of 1899 she was bound from Newport News for Manchester but ran aground on a small pinnacle on the north side of Mizen Head, County Cork, Ireland, in the midst of a dense fog. Retouch primarily to large areas of sky, sky between rigging, larege patches and fine lines and spots in water.