This volume is dedicated to British painter Thomas J. Somerscales (b. England 1842-1927). Somerscales was a Royal Navy officer who caught malaria and was discharged and left to recover in Valparaiso in Chile. In his spare time in Chile he would paint a number of landscapes of the surrounding countryside. In 1899 after witnessing a terrible storm in the Valparaiso port he turned almost exclusively to marine art, initially painting Chilean naval engagements with Peru and later marine and landscape scenes.