My first contact was Amanda Rogers, who gave me details about her family’s links to Ivan Aivazovsky ... Sinop. It is strange how things intertwine but one of IKA's famous naval paintings is the ...

The painting, which had been left to the man by his wife and was hanging on his wall for almost a decade, turned out to be an 1858 work by Russian master Ivan Aivazovsky entitled "The Battle of ...