Old watercolor painting of Churchill over looking a harbor during the war?

I found three watercolor paintings that are signed by the same artist. It looks like the signature is Mario C. The one that caught my eye, is the one that looks like Winston Churchill overlooking a harbor, standing fast to the approaching Nazis. That's what I see when I look at it. The other paintings are of a fisherman and a boat racing team. The funny thing about these, are, I could of sworn I've seen these before I had purchased them. I think it may have been a dream that I had about getting these appraised. I remember the one of possible Churchill being around $1200 and the other two were about $300-600 a piece.

 

The fisherman is nice!

The big head overlooking the harbor looks more like Charles De Gaulle, imo.

 

I was thinking more like Kim Il Sung than Churchill. I think your fisherman is in fact a sailor, and your boat racing team is a peasant family landing the family boat, somewhere not in Britain.

Your artist may be Maltese.

 

Why have I heard of the name Maltese?

 

From Malta.

 

Just because the boat has a number doesn't mean it's a racing team. The large head may just be a lost fisherman - the painting could be an homage to him. Does this look like the harbor in Malta? It looks more like M. D'mios and not Mario C

 

It trying to look up a harbor in Malta right now. It's hard to tell. The images of present day, doesn't look like it. I did find a picture of a harbour in Valleta that has a ship like the one in the picture with black and red and cranes. That's probably a far fetch. Here's a pic of it. I'm not the best at detecting.

 

Looks like Momios ? I especially like the last 2.

 

I do see what you're saying about Charles De Gaulle. The ear is quite large looking, the lowering of the eye brow and nose. I just haven't seen a picture of him with a flat hat like the one pictured. I've only seen him without a hat or the taller hat.

 

Just wondering, why do you think the artist may be Maltese?

 

Just a hunch

 

Just wondering. I didn't know if there was anything that stuck out that may have signaled anything.

 

I would go with Charles De Gaulle.

 

De Gaulle would not be seen dead in a hat like that. Always the kepi. Basically, it's just a bad profile of someone unrecognisable. It may be meant to be Churchill but who knows? Artists are not cameras.

 

That's what I thought about the hat. None the less, I will still look at it as Churchill overlooking a harbour during the war. That's the first impression I had about it when I first seen it. The painting has the hat as a reddish tint. Was
the hat that Churchill wore, a reddish color?

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...v&sa=X&ei=5S9qVKLHLtbdsASnzoKQAQ&ved=0CE4QsAQ

 

Could just as well be MacArthur, except for the lack of sunglasses and corncob pipe.

 

The hats are Maltese fishermen's hats, so you're dead on about these being from Malta. Whether the painter was Maltese or just the subjects is a good question. No clue who the dude in the civilian hat is.

 

Hmmmm.... You got me to digging. Could it be this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ċensu_Tabone