Egyptian Street Scene (1), watercolour on paper, signed Giovanni Barbaro. c1900. Framed and glazed.
Dimensions : Frame : 825mm x 405mm x 30mm.  Image : 710mm x 290mm.

Egyptian Street Scene (2), watercolour on paper, signed Giovanni Barbaro. c1900. Framed and glazed.
Dimensions : Frame : 825mm x 405mm x 30mm.  Image : 710mm x 290mm.

Egyptian Street Scene (3), watercolour on paper, signed Giovanni Barbaro, c1900. Framed and glazed.
Dimensions : Frame : 845mm x 435mm x 25mm.  Image : 715mm x 305mm.

Egyptian Street Scene with Water-carrier, watercolour on paper pasted to acid-board, signed Giovanni Barbaro. c1900.
Dimensions : Image : 728mm x 318mm.

The water-carrier in detail.

Classic desert scene, watercolour on paper pasted to board.  Figures with camels in a desert with ruined columns and palm trees.
Dimensions : 305mm x 745mm.   Signed Giovanni Barbaro. c1900.

Camel and Rider in Desert Landscape, watercolour on paper, signed Giovanni Barbaro. c1900.
Dimensions : Frame : 306mm x 481mm x 14mm. Image : 175mm x 350mm.

Signature on the above painting (lower rh corner).

In an Orange Grove c1900.

Alternative study of the same model set against a background of flowering cherries. Signed G. Barbaro.
Dimensions : 172mm x 228mm.
Image courtesy of Peter Webb, Brittany, France. 11.08.2013.
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The following colour postcards, published by Stewart & Woolf, London, E.C., Series No. 559,  c1909, feature the same model as in the above "In an Orange Grove" watercolour painting and in several other of Giovanni's works over the years. Until proved otherwise, I suspect that this is his wife Amy Barbaro.

A Gipsie girl.

Italian girl.

 

G. Barbaro signature lower rh corner.

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This very attractive watercolour on paper work c1900 is an unusual study for Barbaro and is probably Amy (Barbaro) in her younger years, signed  G. Barbaro.
Dimensions 279mm x 381mm.
Image courtesy of Clerkenwell Fine Art.

Clerkenwell Fine Art also provided the following biography :

Arthur Dudley was a sought after watercolour painter, extremely popular with the Edwardian public. He lived in London and Bath, exhibiting at the R.A., R.I., R.B.A. and elsewhere with a firm following from the people of his day. His chosen pseudonym, Giovanni Barbaro, under which he exhibited, is an appellation redolent of youth, artistry and Mediterranean sensuality which suited the exotic subject matter of his paintings.
Like many artists at the turn of the century, Barbaro turned to the vibrant colours and sensuality of the warm south for inspiration. This exquisite watercolour is a superb example - a celebration of Mediterranean beauty and very much in the spirit of the aesthetic movement and "art for art's sake" which his contemporaries Albert Moore, Lord Leighton and others were championing.

A Greek girl.

Spanish girl.

G. Barbaro signature lower rh corner.