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Fitz Henry Lane

The United States Frigate "President" Engaging the British Squadron, 1815, 1850

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 71.12 × 106.68 cm (28 × 42 in.)

framed: 89.85 × 125.1 × 6.03 cm (35 3/8 × 49 1/4 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lansdell K. Christie)

Accession Number

2014.136.82

Artists / Makers

Fitz Henry Lane (painter) American, 1804 - 1865

Image Use

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Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York), in 1960; purchased 1961 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Kennedy Galleries

Exhibition History

1961: Loan for display at The White House, Washington, 1961-1963..

1963: Progress of an American Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963, unpublished checklist.

1964: Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804-1865, American Marine Painting, Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, 1964, no. 50.

1964: Loan for display at The White House, Washington, 1964-1965.

1966: Past and Present: 250 Years of American Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, unpublished checklist.

1970: American Marine Painting and Ship Portraits of the 19th Century, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 1970, no. 29.

1976: Corcoran [The American Genuis], Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1976, no checklist.

1980: American Luminism, Adams Davidson Galleries, Washington, 1980, no. 16.

1983: The Rockets' Red Glare: An 1812 History, Heritage Plantation of Sandwich [Maine], 1983, no catalogue.

1988: The American Seascape from John Smibert to John Marin, Mansfield Art Center, Ohio, 1988, no. 7.

1989: Realism and Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century New England Seascapes, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, 1989, unnumbered checklist.

2005: Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 2005-2007, checklist no.20.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Wagner, Ann Prentice. "Fitz Henry Lane, The United States Frigate 'President' Engaging the British Squadron." In Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Edited by Sarah Cash. Washington, 2011: 98-99, 261, repro.

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