Painter and lithographer, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA. Except for a brief foray to Boston, he spent most of his life in Gloucester. He began his career as a lithographer, a skill that influenced his later oil paintings. He influenced many other painters, such as Frederick Church, who admired his ability to record the clarity of light and sky. In the late 20th-c he was rediscovered as a painter of seascapes, and his skilled works include Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine (1862).
Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (19 December 1804 – 14 August 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.
Nathaniel Rogers Lane was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His father was a sailmaker who died when Lane was only sixteen. A childhood disease (possibly polio, possibly the result of accidental poisoning) left Lane with partially crippled legs, and he walked on crutches for the rest of his life. In 1831, for unknown reasons, he applied to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to change his name to Fitz Henry Lane. At some point in the early 20th century, Lane's name became confused and was mistakenly believed to be Fitz Hugh Lane. He never signed any paintings as Fitz Hugh Lane, but twice signed as Fitz Henry Lane. Lane or F. From 1832 to 1847 he worked in Boston, before returning to Gloucester where he spent the rest of his life.
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