Need to estimate the value of a european real oil. Thanks

The signiture is R.Schmidt.
Robert Schmidt? German?

The painting is about 58 inch long and 28 inch tall with frame.

Is there anyone can roughly tell me the estimate value of it? Thanks.
Seller asking for 500. I don't know whether it is a good price. (There's 3 small damaged spots on it but can be fixed.)

 

I love it! Piazza San Marco!

 

A fairly generic painting of Venice, of which there are many. It's not a good price if you can't identify who R. Schmidt is. (An internet search should help you there.)

Debora

 

Thank you Debora.
I only found out Robert Schmidt-Hamburg is the closest. Is that painting by him?

 

Certainly doesn't appear to be. To my eye, yours looks like a 1950s decorative painting. But I could be wrong. A photograph of the back, including frame, would be helpful.

Debora

 

I don't know if your painting is by Robert Schmidt Hamburg, but he is probably the closest guess.
I found Robert Schmidt Hamburg on several German info pages, they all say roughly the same. He was born in 1885 in Berlin (inland), and was a sailor for a while. He added the name Hamburg to his surname out of love for that northern German harbour city.
In 1921 he settled down in Kiel-Laboe, in north Germany, and became a painter.
He made mainly maritime paintings and painted for shipping firms, things like illustrations for advertising and for menus on cruise ships and collecting cards (like baseball cards, but of ships). He died in 1963 at home in Kiel-Laboe.
This is in German, but it is the same info, with some pictures.
http://cuxpedia.de/index.php?title=Schmidt-Hamburg,_Robert
He made several paintings of Venice.

Here is a YouTube film of a posthumous exhibition of his works, with an explanation in German, so you'll have to be patient. After about two minutes the first painting appears


This is a painting with his signature:

 

Thank you so much for your information.

 

To this untrained eye, the signatures do not look quite the same. Just going by the way the "R" is formed.

 

Signatures can evolve.

 

Nice way to say as we get older our writing goes south on us. I know mine sure has.

 

My signature is virtually non-existent now. A few sea waves, really. Great for surfing.

 

Just going by the Schmidt, looks to me very much like the same hand. It would be relatively easy to forge, so have to leave room for some doubt.