Fitz Henry Lane (Massachusetts, 1804-1865) Vessel Returning from Surinam

Fitz Henry Lane (Massachusetts, 1804-1865)

Vessel Returning from Surinam
Signed and indistinctly inscribed or dated "F.H. Lane..." l.r., with a faint "FH" just above and to the left of the signature, identified on a typed label affixed to the stretcher.
Oil on canvas, 18 x 30 1/4 in. (45.5 x 76.5 cm), framed.
Condition: Minor retouch to fill craquelure in sky and stretcher bar mark along right vertical edge, signature reinforced, craquelure, minor surface grime.

Provenance: Probably Dr. Greenleaf, Gloucester, Massachusetts; to his daughter Harriet Greenleaf Whitman; to the parents of the current owner, by family descent.

Literature: John Wilmerding, Fitz Hugh Lane (1804-1865), American Marine Painter (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1964), p. 83, #370.

N.B. This work will be included in the Fitz Henry Lane online catalogue raisonné, www.fitzhenrylaneonline.org, managed by the Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts. We would like to thank Sam Holdsworth and the Cape Ann Museum for their kind assistance with this lot.