Doug Smith's grandfather was in the US Navy on the China Station in the 1920s.He and his family lived in Chefoo.While there they acquired the three oil paintings below from my grandfather.

Pen & Ink Sketch in my posession

Windbox Gorge - watercolor in my possession

I.A.Donnelly

I.A.Donnelly

Donnelly produced a book on junks entitled "Chinese Junks and other River Craft" This was one of the earliest if not the earliest books on junks written by a westerner.It contains a number of pen and ink illustrations as well as a number of colour plates of his own watercolours. This book was preceded by a small book of ink sketches of junks "Chinese Junks" published in 1920 whose popularity prompted the second book.He also illustrated a book by Cornell Plant "The Pilot" -- "Glimpses of the Yangtze Gorges".

In 1933 he published a guide to the Hai - Ho (Sea River) from Taku Bar to Tientsin (where my mother was born).

Mandarin's Cloak owned by my grandmother M M Donnelly 

Owner Tom O'Neil .Painting is of the Pacific Mail steamer Venezuela.Painted in 1916 approaching the Kiutoam lightship.

"Junk Anchorage " dated 1926 . Oil painting owned Doug Smith

"Off Steep Island " 1926 Oil painting owned by Doug Smith

Oil painting owned by Doug Smith.