Artworks - artist unknown

Hi all
I am dispersing my late father's estate and have a couple of paintings that I can't find who painted. When I use Google lens it comes up with Edgar Hunt and the frames are certainly the same style as those many of his works are in - but I'm guessing they're a later copy of his style.
The back of the paintings have a label - Mill'd Boards prepared for oil painting by Geo. Rowney & Co., 51 Rathbone Place, London. According to Google, Geo. Rowney & Co. were in business at 51 Rathbone Place between 1854 and 1862 - so rather early for Hunt's era, but guess the boards could still have been available?
I found one of them on https://www.artrenewal.org/artworks/edgar-hunt/chickens-in-a-farmyard/11612 - extremely similar but with subtle differences. Doesn't look like the quality of painting on Dad's is as good close up, but from a distance they look the part.
24cm by 19cm excluding frames.
I have to sell them so don't want to misrepresent them so I'd be grateful if anyone could give me any ideas. As always thanks in advance.

 

ive had a couple before, and they're quite convincingly made to look old, which is stupid as they're not that bad

but were made to deceive,

they still sell ok though

 

Great, thanks so much Charlie - I though that might be the case.

 

the aging is quite an artform in itself with these

 

They've certainly gone to a lot of trouble to do it!

 

Those frames are a giveaway. I have a small oil painting bought at auction. I knew what it was (a Chinese import), but I liked the little landscape it portrayed. Exact same frame as yours. At that time there was a flood of these paintings at local auctions.

 

I've said this before about decorative artwork... If you look carefully, you can see that the "artist" worked with minimum effort to create maximum effect. Compare your father's works with this genuine work by Edgar Hunt. See how the cabbage is fully captured here compared with the broad strokes of the greens above.

Debora