Historical information

The subject is similar to John Ford Paterson's painting also called "Evening on the Yarra'.

The artiste signed J. White on the left bottom corner.

A mention of a painting called "Evening on the Yarra" by John Whyte (mispelling or not?) is made in The Age in 1898 about the Annual Exhibition of the Melbourne Art Club.

There are different leads for the name : it could be John Goldsworthy White, an amateur marine painter, or J.S. White, a marine painter active in the 1890s and member of the Victorian Sketching Club.
(or maybe a transcrit or print error and this is the same person)

Physical description

Large oil painting of sailing ships at dock with smaller sailing vessels and row boats on stretched canvas in elaborate gilt Victorian frame. Unglazed
Steel eyelets and hanging wire

Inscriptions & markings

Lower front left corner: signature (possibly) J. White