Carl Kauffman
(1843 - 1905)
 

Karl Kaufmann was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Karl Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes, including a remarkable number of views of Venice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kaufmann_(painter)

Vessels on the Grand Canal, Venice
1881
Oil on canvas
50.5 x 81.5 cm
Private collection
Sold by Christie’s, London, 6 Jun 2013
https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5694371