View of West Beach, Beverly
Type:Painting
Year:1863
Size:30.00" x 48.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Sold 5/9/1997 for $3,852,500, setting what was then the world record price for the artist at auction.
Fitz Henry Lane ART FOR SALE
1804 Gloucester, Massachusetts - 1865 Gloucester, Massachusetts. Known for: Marine, landscape, genre paintings, graphics.
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane became one of America's preeminent marine painters. During his lifetime, he was described as the... Read full biography
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane became one of America's preeminent marine painters. During his lifetime, he was described as the "country's second-greatest marine painter, but he faded in renown from about 1870 until the re-emergence... Read full biography
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane became one of America's preeminent marine painters. During his lifetime, he was described as the "country's second-greatest marine painter, but he faded in renown from about 1870 until the re-emergence of interest in American painting in the 1930s." (Dunlap) . Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane was crippled since childhood and walked with crutches, a condition long attributed to childhood disease. Latest... Read full biography
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane became one of America's preeminent marine painters. During his lifetime, he was described as the "country's second-greatest marine painter, but he faded in renown from about 1870 until the re-emergence of interest in American painting in the 1930s." (Dunlap) . Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane was crippled since childhood and walked with crutches, a condition long attributed to childhood disease. Latest research though has shown that disease was a remote and unlikely culprit for Lane's loss of mobility, the most plausible of possibilities being the ingestion of the neurotoxin Datura stramonium.(see Craig, pages 17 & 18). As an artist, he had no formal... Read full biography
Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane became one of America's preeminent marine painters. During his lifetime, he was described as the "country's second-greatest marine painter, but he faded in renown from about 1870 until the re-emergence of interest in American painting in the 1930s." (Dunlap) . Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane was crippled since childhood and walked with crutches, a condition long attributed to childhood disease. Latest research though has shown that disease was a remote and unlikely culprit for Lane's loss of mobility, the most plausible of possibilities being the ingestion of the neurotoxin Datura stramonium.(see Craig, pages 17 & 18). As an artist, he had no formal training but early learned printmaking as he worked for Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston doing naval architecture draf... Read full biography
Fitz Henry Lane - Art for Sale (3 available)
Camden Mts. from the Graves
Type:Painting
Year:1862
Size:13.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
This painting sold for $1.384 million at the Skinner American & European Works of Art auction in Boston on September 20, 2013.
Manchester Harbor
Type:Painting
Year:1853
Size:24.00" x 36.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Sold 11/19/2004 for $5,506,000, setting a world record price for this artist at auction.