ID 1119020
Lot 221 | FITZ HENRY LANE (1804-1865)
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 70 000
Coming Ashore near Brace's Rock, Gloucester, Massachusetts
signed 'Painted by Fitz H Lane.' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
10 x 15 ¾ in. (25.4 x 40 cm.)
Painted circa 1860.
Provenance
Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1945.
Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1973.
Private collection, 1974.
Godel & Co. Fine Art, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2005.
Literature
J. Wilmerding, Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804–1865: American Marine Painter, Salem, Massachusetts, 1964, p. 47 (as Brace's Rock).
J. Wilmerding, "Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen," American Art Review, vol. XIX, no. 4, 2007, p. 176 (as Coming Ashore near Brace's Rock).
Exhibited
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, Sea & Sail, November 22, 1974-February 2, 1975, no. 80 (as Island Off the Maine Coast).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting and the American Site, June 5-July 31, 1980, pp. 4, 17, no. 40 (as Island Off the Maine Coast).
Gloucester, Massachusetts, Cape Ann Historical Museum; New York, Spanierman Gallery, Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries, July 7-December 1, 2007, pp. 24, 42, 100, no. 46, illustrated.
Further details
This work is included as inventory number 60 in the online catalogue raisonné (fitzhenrylaneonline.org) under the direction of the Cape Ann Museum.
| Artist: | Fitz Henry Lane (1804 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Fitz Henry Lane (1804 - 1865) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on canvas |
| Genre: | Marine art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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