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"This artist has a very pleasing idea of sea sketching. His drawing and perspective are generally very good, and the grouping of vessels, excellent. If, in regard to coloring, he will follow nature a little closer, to do which he is evidently able, his productions cannot fail to take a high rank in the scale of merit."
Also filed under: Boston – Boston Mechanics' Association »
The Boston Almanac for the Year 1844. By S.N. Dickinson. Boston: Published by Thomas Groom & Co., Stationers' Hall, 82 State Street.
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
F.H. Lane is listed under Marine Painters at 28 Joy's building
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p.27
"The character of the water well expressed, the vessels well drawn and placed, and the sky good. No. 1 of its class."
Also filed under: Boston – Boston Mechanics' Association »
The Boston Almanac for the Year 1845. By S.N. Dickinson. Boston: Published by Thomas Groom & Co., Stationers' Hall, 82 State Street.
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
F.H. Lane is listed under Marine Painters at 16 Tremont Temple
Also filed under: Biographical information »
The Boston Almanac for the Year 1847. By S.N. Dickinson. Boston: Published by Thomas Groom & Co., Stationers' Hall, 82 State Street.
Cape Ann Museum Library & Archive
F.H. Lane is listed under Marine Painters at 16 Tremont Temple
Also filed under: Biographical information »
The U.S. Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal, vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 464–65.
Contains brief announcement of the line-up of the August 8, 1856 race depicted by Lane.
Also filed under: "Julia" (Sloop Yacht) » // "Widgeon" (Sloop Yacht) » // New-York Yacht Club » // Newspaper / Journal Articles » // Regattas »
The U.S. Nautical Magazine and Naval Journal, vol. 5
pp. 16–18
Article about the New-York Yacht Club regatta held at New Bedford on August 8, 1856, as painted by Lane. Includes lists of participating yachts and times in New Bedford.
1873 Gloucester City Directory (1)
"The design is very pretty and appropriate . . .In the centre of the seal is a representation of a fishing schooner anchored on the banks, copied from a picture painted by that talented artist, the late Mr. Fitz H. Lane." (2)
References:
1. Gloucester City Directory. (Gloucester, MA: Sampson, Davenport, & Co., 1873), front page.
2. "The Town Seal": designed by Capt. Addison Center," Cape Ann Weekly Advertiser, February 9, 1872.
Woburn, MA,
"After a time I left the shoe store, and through the influence of my friend Cooke, was admitted as an apprentice to Moore, successor to Pendleton, in the lithographic business. Here I was speedily worked in as a draughtsman for ordinary commercial work, the fine work, such as designs of figures and heads from life being done by Cooke. F.H. Lane, afterwards well-known as a marine painter, did most of the views, hotels, etc. He was very accurate in his drawing, understood perspective and naval architecture perfectly, as well as the handling of vessels, and was a good, all-round draughtsman." (1)
(1) John Wilmerding. Fitz Henry Lane (Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005). Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971.
Also filed under: Champney, Benjamin » // Cooke, Robert » // Pendleton's, Lith. – Boston » // Personal Reviews » // Professional »
Steamer schedules for 1855, including the schedule for the steamer, "T. F. Secor" which served Castine, see pp. 234–35.
Also filed under: "T. F. Secor" (Steamboat) » // Castine » // Steamers » // Steamship / Engine-Powered Vessel / Coastal Steamer »
