Help with artwork

[jtw1313]

Can anyone make out signature this painting had to be hard to do it's very fine lines

 

[Keith Jackson]

It is a photo by photographer R. K. Grubbs of the USS Niagara which is also known as the Brig Niagara.

 

[vpnavy]

Keith beat me to it! Anyway the USS Brig Niagara "...The US Brig Niagara or the Flagship Niagara is a wooden-hulled brig that served as the relief flagship for Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812..."

 

[Mudflap]

You can see a replica at About the U.S. Brig Niagara | Flagship Niagara League. It is up in Erie, PA.