Painting with Frame

As the painting is allready quite big itself they've putted

a robust frame around it that must have been quite expensive itself.

We think it could have been the original one as more of

these frames are seen around paintings of these times.
After a lot of research and consulting some experts we can say
that the Hudson river steamboat with two funnels athwart ships with
a walking beam behind and with two covered decks is the Onteora,
launched in 1898 at Newburgh, New York.

To really know the name of a boat even boosts the value

of paintings like this but it remains an "unusual" painting

by this artist and therefore it took so much time to have

it properly valued and acknowledged.