Fitz Henry Lane Prints
1804–1865 · American · Luminism
Wall art by Fitz Henry Lane, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
6 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Fitz Henry Lane
Fitz Henry Lane, born Nathaniel Rogers Lane in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in December 1804, lost the use of his legs in childhood and used crutches all his life. He trained as a lithographer at Pendleton's in Boston in the 1830s and painted the harbour there before returning to Gloucester in 1848, building a stone house on the hill above the water. From it, and from summer sailing trips to the Maine coast, he painted ships, rocks and inlets at dawn and dusk in a still, glassy light with every rope drawn exactly, the manner later called Luminism. He died in Gloucester in August 1865, little known outside New England; his name was misrecorded as Fitz Hugh Lane for a century until the correction in 2005. His calm harbours print as serene, glowing pictures for a bedroom, study or coastal living room.