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Fitz Hugh Lane
Birth Year : 1804
Death Year : 1865
Country : US

Fitz Hugh Lane (Nathaniel Rogers Lane) was born in

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Boston Harbor, 1853
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Gloucester, Massachusetts. He received virtually no art training until the 1830's when he went to work for Boston lithographer William S. Pendleton, where he drew views of Boston Harbor and maritime architectural drafts. During this time, the marine painter Robert Salmon became a friend and a major influence in his life and art.





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"I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true."