BAL364900 Portrait of Admiral Jose (Osip) de Ribas, after 1796 (oil on canvas) by Russian School (18th century); 129x99 cm; (add.info.: Jose Pascual Domingo de Ribas y Boyons (1749-1800) known as Osip (Iosif) Mikhailovich Deribas, Russian admiral of Spanish-Irish origin; Founder of Odessa; proposed a plan to Catherine the Great, of transforming the site into a major Russian port with an ice-free harbour); Russian, out of copyright.