Fitz Henry Lane

Lane, Fitz Hugh

American, 1804 - 1865

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American painter and printmaker (1804-1865)

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Near the center of the painting, a masted wooden ship floats against a vibrant sunset that fades from lilac purple to carnation pink along the horizon line, which comes about a quarter of the way up this horizontal landscape. The boat is angled away from us and to our left with one sail tied up near the top of one of the two tall masts. Four people stand on the lumber-filled deck and tie up other sails. A second boat floats in the distance, its rigging and masts silhouetted against the vivid pink sky. The water is deep blue along the bottom edge of the canvas and lightens where it meets the hills along the horizon. Slivers of wispy slate-gray clouds sweep across the sky.
Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Francis W. Hatch, Sr., 1980.29.1

Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay

Fitz Henry Lane · 1863 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1980.29.1

Fitz Henry Lane, Becalmed off Halfway Rock, 1860, oil on canvas, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1992.51.8

Becalmed off Halfway Rock

Fitz Henry Lane · 1860 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1992.51.8

Fitz Henry Lane, View of Gloucester, Mass., 1855, lithograph, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 2008.115.3030

View of Gloucester, Mass.

Fitz Henry Lane · 1855 · lithograph ·  Accession ID  2008.115.3030

Fitz Henry Lane, New York Harbor, 1852, oil on canvas, Gift of Frances Elizabeth Smith, 1994.100.1

New York Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane · 1852 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1994.100.1

Fitz Henry Lane, The United States Frigate "President" Engaging the British Squadron, 1815, 1850, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie), 2014.136.82

The United States Frigate "President" Engaging the British Squadron, 1815

Fitz Henry Lane · 1850 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.82

Bibliography

1974

  • Wilmerding, John. Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane at the Cape Ann Historical Society. Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1974.

1988

  • Wilmerding, John, et al. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988.

1996

  • Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 407-408.

2005

  • "Collector's Notes Fitz who Lane?," Antiques, June 2005: 48

  • Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane. Cape Anne Historical Association and Bradfore & Bigelow, Danvers, MA: 2005