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Fitz Henry Lane

1804

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Smithsonian

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Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

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Smithsonianhttps://www.si.edu/object/saam_1982.18
Tier 1 · Institutional90%

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Fitz Henry Lane was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago

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Artworks (6)

The Maniac

1880 · Lithograph on cream wove paper, folded

33.6 × 25.5 cm (13 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance

1846 · oil on canvas

Framed: 66 x 104.8 x 14 cm (26 x 41 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 43.2 x 68.6 cm (17 x 27 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

View of the Battle Ground at Concord, Massachusetts

1845 · Lithograph with gray tintstone on ivory wove paper

Image: 32.7 × 49.5 cm (12 7/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Sheet: 41.5 × 53 cm (16 3/8 × 20 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Salem Mechanick Light Infantry Quick Step

1836 · Lithograph on cream wove paper, folded

Sheet, folded: 33.7 × 26.2 cm (13 5/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass.

1835 · lithograph

Sheet: 47.8 x 62.2 cm (18 13/16 x 24 1/2 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

View of the Town of Gloucester, Massachusetts

1831 · Lithograph on wove paper

Image: 32.8 × 49.9 cm (12 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.); Sheet: 40.8 × 51 cm (16 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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6 published of 6 catalogued · 6 with image

Art Institute Chicago
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance
1846 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass.
1835 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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