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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.

Stage Rocks and the Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857 (inv. 8). Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass., Gift of Estate of Catalina Davis, 1932 (642.13c)

Explore the Works in the Catalogue

Untitled, n.d. (inv. 287)
Untitled, n.d. (inv. 287)
Rowers Frigate, 1848 (inv. 304)
Rowers Frigate, 1848 (inv. 304)
Two Ships in Rough Seas, 1847 (inv. 34)
Two Ships in Rough Seas, 1847 (inv. 34)
Beach and Pavilion, 1850s (inv. 101)
Beach and Pavilion, 1850s (inv. 101)
Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)
Mount Desert Sketch, 1850s (inv. 185)
Boston Harbor, Sunset, 1850–55 (inv. 242)
Boston Harbor, Sunset, 1850–55 (inv. 242)
Lumber Schooner in a Gale, 1863 (inv. 552)
Lumber Schooner in a Gale, 1863 (inv. 552)
Mary Ann, 1846 (inv. 309)
Mary Ann, 1846 (inv. 309)
Bear Island from the South, 1855 (inv. 134)
Bowdoin College, Brunswick Me., c.1844 (inv. 441)
Three Master, 1850s (inv. 196)
Three Master, 1850s (inv. 196)
Three Master at Sea, 1850s (inv. 139)
Three Master at Sea, 1850s (inv. 139)
Brace's Cove, Eastern Point, 1863 (inv. 147)
Maine Marsh Scene, n.d. (inv. 685)
Maine Marsh Scene, n.d. (inv. 685)
Sloop, Early 1850s (inv. 189)
Sloop, Early 1850s (inv. 189)
Sunrise at Gloucester, 1847 (inv. 303)
Sunrise at Gloucester, 1847 (inv. 303)
"Starlight" in Harbor, c.1855 (inv. 249)
"Starlight" in Harbor, c.1855 (inv. 249)
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