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:
F.H. Lane's First Complete Lithography Exhibition at the Cape Ann MuseumDrawn from Nature & on Stone: The Lithographs of Fitz Henry LaneOCT. 7, 2017—MARCH 4, 2018
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 (Pilot Pendant: Approaching (inv. 296) and Pilot Pendant: Departing (inv. 297)) 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. |
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Three Master on the Gloucester Railways, 1857 (inv. 29)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Deposited by the City of Gloucester, 1952 (DEP. 202) 
Salem Harbor, 1853 (inv. 53)
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bequest of Maxim Karolik (64.465) 
Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, 1850s (inv. 17)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Bessie Stanwood, 1948 (1238) 
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) 
Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance, c.1846–47 (inv. 88)
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund and partial gift of Travers Newton, Joanna Newton Riccardi, and Georgia Newton Pulos (2004.35) 
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) 
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) 
The Babson Meadows at Riverdale, 1863 (inv. 11)
Collection: Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Roger W. Babson, 1937 (779.03) » 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 The first Ten Pound Island Lighthouse Historical Materials:  Subscription List and Mailing for "Castine, From Hospital Island" 1855 Historical Materials:  Dorothy Little Stevens to F. H. Lane, Castine, 10.16.1851 Historical Materials:  1851 Map of the Towns of Gloucester and Rockport (detail showing wharves) Historical Materials:  Inner Harbor, Gloucester Historical Materials: Browse all Historical Materials » About Fitz Henry LaneEducational Resources |
