A Modern French School oil painting on canvas depicting a ship genre scene after the original oil painting on canvas,The Last Evening, 1873 by James Tissot, French, 1836 to 1902. Signed by the artist, Duggar, lower left. Jacques Joseph Tissot better known as James Tissot, was a French painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was born to a drapery merchant and a milliner and decided to pursue a career in art at a young age, coming to incorporate elements of realism, early Impressionism, and academic art into his work. He is best known for a variety of genre paintings of contemporary European high society produced during the peak of his career, which focused on the people and womens fashion of the Belle Epoque and Victorian England, but he would also explore many medieval, biblical, and Japoniste subjects throughout his life. One of a kind artwork.