A pair of seascape paintings, created in the end of 19  - beginning of 20 century, depicts evening and day Crimea coast with sailing boats. The author - Russian landscape and marine painter Nikolay Dmitrieff. Studied and worked in St.Petersburg in the late 19th century - early 20th century. His biographical dates are not fully known, but in the famous Russian monography "Artists of Russian Salon. 1850 - 1917" (St.Petersburg, 2004) was represented a lot of his landscapes and seascapes including from the Crimea. Probably this painter is identical with Landscape painter Nikolay Wassiljevitch Dmitriev (1867-after 1917), few landscape works incl.biography in Russian represanted under following link

http://korners.kiev.ua/russian/painters/1098

Inscription: evening landscape signed lower left .

Technique: oil on cardboard. Gold-plated salon frames.

Measurements: each unframed 9 1/2" x 13" (24 x 33 cm); framed 14 1/4" x 18 1/2" (36 x 47 cm)

Condition: in very good condition