Featured Boats painting: old?

I kinda like this painting. Lazy summer vibe. Rowboat, sailboat and big mechanized ship all included.... maybe some commentary by that?

It's apprx 12" x 16" (15." X 19.5" framed) and is unsigned.

Do you think it's old?

What do you think of it?

Thanks for all comments in advance.

 

not sure thats a ship in the foreground as it seems to level off at the peer, and would expect to see more of the ship underneath. maybe just part of the peer.
the steps at the end doesn't look right for a ship either

 

The ship is out on the horizon, center of pic #2; rowboat in foreground, and what I think is a white sailboat with furled sails, left middle ground in pic #2.

 

ah got ya i thought you meant that was a ship under the tree, does look a bit odd that part

but i like the painting

 

It could be a very talented amateur but I tend to think slightly better than that. Its a very attractive well done piece .The canvas looks like it has some age.

 

I like it Pot,it's got some presence.

 

Like it. Have you checked for a signature under the frame?

Debora

 

Not yet... I tried to shine a light into the crevice between canvas and frame, to see if there were staples etc, but didn't see anything yet.

 

Like how the painting is flat except for the foreground where the artist used the impasto technique. Creates depth. Does the landscape look the part of the world where you found the work?

Debora

 

This isn't the signature?

 

No. This looks Gulf Coast to me (a guess). Could also be a Great Lakes scene, or perhaps not American.

(Any wood structures built into the ocean here would be destroyed in about a minute. )

 

Thanks for the idea.... don't think so:

 

At a glance, I thought it would be a great lake.

Debora

 

In thinking about it, the painting doesn't seem to suggest that there are tides here: the shoreline looks consistent. So maybe a Great Lake is more likely.

 

Took it out of the frame: no siggie, and staples on the sides. Perhaps someone stretched newer canvas on older stretchers.

 

Well that’s surprising and a little disappointing.

 

Agree!!

 

Still nice piece,but alas brass tacks would've been better.

 

Overall I also still like it and it looks good in the frame. It gives me the sense of looking thru a window.

 

It does feel a bit like a window--- from the summer cottage at the lake.