An online project under the direction of the CAPE ANN MUSEUM
Welcome to Fitz Henry Lane OnlineFitz Henry Lane Online is a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalog of the paintings, drawings, and lithographs of nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865). The Cape Ann Museum, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts (Lane’s birthplace and home for most of his life) has the world’s largest collection of Lane’s paintings, drawings, lithographs, and related material. The website is intended to provide information of interest to a broad audience, and to serve as a resource for information and analysis of Lane’s work. The website focuses on both the formal, aesthetic qualities and provides detailed information on the historical context of his pictures. For more see About the Project. News:
New Discoveries: Lane Pendants Descended in New England Family
A pair of Lane marine paintings with a fascinating provenance has surfaced through an old New England family with maritime ties to the brothers Robert B. and John M. Forbes. The paintings are clearly pendants, a pair intended to be displayed together. They are quite small, 17” by 14”, and were likely inset into wall paneling, perhaps on either side of a fireplace. Fitz Henry Lane Online Adds Image Comparison Tool
Example of the Image Comparison Tool being used in Side-by-Side mode to compare Gloucester Harbor, 1852 (inv. 38) with the infrared image. Up to four images can be compared simultaneously. |
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Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 348)
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., John Wilmerding Collection, Promised Gift 
Salem Harbor, 1853 (inv. 53)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Maxim Karolik (64.465) 
Brig "Antelope" in Boston Harbor, 1863 (inv. 43)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 (48.449) 
New York Harbor, c.1855 (inv. 46)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gift of Maxim Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 (48.446) 
The Old Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, 1850s (inv. 30)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Deposited by the Collection of Addison Gilbert Hospital, 1978 (DEP. 201) 
Gloucester from Brookbank, 1848 (inv. 42)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815–1865 (48.444) 
Gloucester Harbor, 1847 (inv. 23)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Estate of Samuel H. Mansfield, 1949 (1332.20) 
Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, 1850s (inv. 17)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Bessie Stanwood, 1948 (1238) » Browse all the works in the catalog. » Browse works by type: » See Fitz Henry Lane works on view at the Cape Ann Museum Historical Materials Wheel of the "Jamestown" Historical Materials:  1859 Cape Ann Advertiser 12.2.1859 Historical Materials:  First Order Fresnel Lens for Thacher Island lighthouse beacon Historical Materials:  The first Ten Pound Island Lighthouse Historical Materials:  1851 Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport (detail showing wharves) Historical Materials: Browse all Historical Materials » About Fitz Henry LaneEducational Resources |
