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Welcome to Fitz Henry Lane Online

Fitz Henry Lane Online is a freely-accessible interactive and interdisciplinary online resource created by the Cape Ann Museum. The website is organized around a catalogue 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.

Becalmed Off Halfway Rock, 1860 (inv. 344). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art (1992.51.8)

Explore the Works in the Catalogue

Sunset Frigate, 1855–60 (inv. 302)
Sunset Frigate, 1855–60 (inv. 302)
Sunset Off Ten-Pound Island, c.1860 (inv. 274)
Sunset Off Ten-Pound Island, c.1860 (inv. 274)
American Vessels No. 1, c.1845 (inv. 452)
American Vessels No. 1, c.1845 (inv. 452)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 220)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 220)
Watch House Point, 1860 (inv. 292)
Watch House Point, 1860 (inv. 292)
Worcester House, n.d. (inv. 455)
Worcester House, n.d. (inv. 455)
Twilight on the Kennebec, 1849 (inv. 258)
Twilight on the Kennebec, 1849 (inv. 258)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Lifting the Mortgage, n.d. (inv. 488)
Castine Harbor, 1852 (inv. 71)
Castine Harbor, 1852 (inv. 71)
Lumber Schooner in a Gale, 1863 (inv. 552)
Lumber Schooner in a Gale, 1863 (inv. 552)
Sicilian Vespers, c.1832 (inv. 486)
Sicilian Vespers, c.1832 (inv. 486)
Coffins Beach from the Loaf, 1862 (inv. 153)
View of Gloucester, 1859 (inv. 446)
View of Gloucester, 1859 (inv. 446)
Three Master at Sea, 1850s (inv. 139)
Three Master at Sea, 1850s (inv. 139)
Beach near Gloucester, n.d. (inv. 556)
Beach near Gloucester, n.d. (inv. 556)
View in Boston Harbour, c.1836 (inv. 479)
View in Boston Harbour, c.1836 (inv. 479)
The Cape Ann Museum is grateful to the following organizations for their support of Fitz Henry Lane Online:
Wyeth Foundation for American Art National Endowment for the Arts Institute of Museum and Library Science Thomfohrde Foundation Danversbank Charitable Foundation