William Hoffman was an American painter known for his depictions of Pacific seascapes and the American West. Born in 1924 in Montana, Hoffman was a self-taught artist who found painting late in life.

Moscow Auction House tells The Art Newspaper that the auctioned Aivazovsky painting was not the Simferopol seascape, but a different work from 1878, left untitled by the artist, but given the name ...