Thrift store find today - 1897 C D Hunt painting - real?!

This came in today at a regular thrift store I go to everyday. I saw it as it was brought in & asked the manager how much? (!)
He told me $100 - because the frame was old & large (it is - I'm guessing 4ft x 3ft & 2-3" thick).
I looked up C D Hunt and found some of his paintings were canvas on board - is that what mine is? (I thought it was just board by look & feel, but there is some crackling in sky; would that happen on board or just canvas?)
And most important - do you think this is real?! I think a art collector passed away & relatives with no idea have been donating his work (maybe it came from house/estate sale I found the Leon Voirin painting in?? lol
Thanks as always for any help.
PS - It appears darker to me in my house; I took photos by my car in sunlight as soon as I got it out of the thrift store - maybe needs a cleaning to be that bright inside?

 

Looks good to me. He painted the Adirondacks.

Debora

 

Looks like canvas around the siggy. Maybe some restoration... that rectangle in the sky?

 

Weird right?

 

The man looks really, really small!

 

It’s like we are suppose to be spotting a UFO.

 

And really really shifty !

Did anyone see a man in a baseball cap looking at odds with himself, at that place near the time of the murder ?

Or have I been watching too much true crime

 

Where's Waldo? !