Attributed to Ivan Aivazovsky, Armenian-Russian, 1817 to 1900, oil on canvas painting. After the ca. 1845 artwork titled Smolny Monastery, Saint Petersburg. Signed and dated in the lower left. Karelian birch wood frame. Provenance: Estate of Eric Jansson, Roswell, Georgia. Ivan Aivazovsky was a Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Following his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Aivazovsky traveled to Europe and lived briefly in Italy in the early 1840s. He then returned to Russia and was appointed the main painter of the Russian Navy. Collectible European Fine Art, Seascape, Marine Nautical Landscape.