The image size of print is 21 1/2 x 30 inches.

YACHT "NORTHERN LIGHT" IN BOSTON HARBOR by Fitz Hugh Lane (American 1804-1865) Shelburne Museum, VT

This biography from the Archives of AskART: Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, he became one of America's preeminent marine painters, associated with delicate, brilliantly lit luminist seascapes However, he was not nationally recognized until long after his death.

He was crippled by a childhood disease and always walked with crutches. As an artist, he had no formal training until 1830 when he worked for Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston doing naval architecture drafts and topographical views of Boston and its harbor.

After 1835, most of Lane's paintings were light-filled harbor and shoreline views of a variety of places, most of them away from Boston. It is said that by the end of 1840, he had reached his mature style, a highly personal luminism. Boston marine painter, Robert Salmon was a strong influence on his work, and he also cultivated shipping magnate Samuel Cunard as a client and did ship portraits of several Cunard Steamers including the "Unicorn" and the "S.S. Britannia."

In 1835, Lane did his own lithographs, the first a panoramic view of Gloucester, and these became quite popular. After 1840, he focused on luminist oil painting, romantic natural marine views that were a reversal of his earlier precise work. He also did portraits.

In the 1850s, he pioneered new chemical pigments in red, yellow, orange and also was one of the first to try photography to help his studio painting process.

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