Fitz Henry Lane

View of Indian Bar Cove, Brooksville, Maine

Auction Closed

January 18, 06:09 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Fitz Henry Lane

1804 - 1865

View of Indian Bar Cove, Brooksville, Maine

signed F.H. Lane and dated 1850 (lower right); bears inscription Painted by F.H. Lane / New Years present / to Doct. Saml. Morrill / from his daughter / Mrs. K.F. Williams / Jany. 1st, 1854. (on the reverse); also titled View of Indian Bar Cove, Brooksville of Castine, Me and dated 1850 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

11½ by 18½ in.

29.2 by 47 cm.

Executed in 1850.

Mrs. K.F. Williams
Dr. Samuel Morrill (acquired by descent from the above in 1854)
Miss Dorothy Adkiw, Boston
Mr. Nicolas Slonimsky, New York and Los Angeles
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York (acquired from the above in 1969)
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson E. Davenport (acquired from the above in 1969)
Godel & Co. Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

John Wilmerding, Fitz Hugh Lane, New York, 1971, no. 88, p. 81, illustrated

Thomas R. Moore, "The Magic Moonshine: Fitz Hugh Lane and Nathaniel Hawthorne," American Art XII, 1998, no. 1, p. 79, illustrated

New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, The American Scene, no. 59, p. 48, illustrated
Washington, D.C., The National Gallery of Art, Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane, 1988, no. 47, p. 112, illustrated