British painter Edward Lear appears regularly on this blog. He has painted the peninsula beautifully.This monk is facing the mountain on the left Stavronikita.
More or less the same location.
Even more beautiful I find his watercolour drawings. Her again a view on the mountain as seen from Pantocratoros.
When making this watercolour he must have been at Sithonia, the other peninsula of Chalkidiki. A distant view on the mountain in 1856.
From this sketch we know that Lear drew this on a boat whilst travelling from Thesaloniki to Kavala in 1839.
This watercoulour was made on his trip from Corfu to Athos in 1856. I am not sure it is actually on the Holy Mountain. The last one is made in 1839 and clearly not on Athos. It showes the monasteries of Meteora.
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Athos - Agios Oros 
Beautiful presentation! I would like to add a thought concerning the fourth artwork. Could that have been a view from the slopes of Mount Cholomon? Lear himself notes “above Eriligova (sic)” (Elerigova, Larigova or Liarigovi, the present day Arnaia). As far as I know, no other view of Mount Athos from the area of Arnaia exists, except for some points on Mount Cholomon, where all three peninsulas can be seen. Thank you.