Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Gloucester
c. 1864
Fitz Henry Lane
Artist, American, 1804 - 1865
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 25.4 x 38.1 cm (10 x 15 in.)
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Accession Number
2025.89.14
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Michael Lemon, Boston.[1] (Harvey F. Additon [1871-1955], Boston, 1944); (Robert B. Campbell [1909-1974], Boston, 1944); (Childs Gallery, Boston, 1944); (Victor Spark [1898-1991], New York, 1944); acquired 1944 by Maxim [1893-1963] and Martha Codman [1858-1948] Karolik, Newport; gift 1948 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; deaccessioned 1966;[2] purchased 1966 by John Wilmerding, New York [1938-2024]; bequest 2025 to NGA.
[1] Lemon was possibly a dealer.
[2] The work was deaccessioned to help fund purchase of Lane's Boston Harbor
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1957
American Paintings 1815-1865, exhibition circulated to twelve venues by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1957-1959, no. 113.
1976
The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976, unnumbered catalogue, frontispiece.
2004
American Masters from Bingham to Eakins. The John Wilmerding Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005, no. 22, repro.
Bibliography
1949
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings, 1815-1865. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1949: no. 184, 412-413, repro.
1964
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804-1865, American Marine Painter. Salem, Massachusettes, 1964: no. 113, 64.
1969
American Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2 vols. Boston, 1969: 1:no. 717, 186.
Novak, Barbara. American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience. New York, 1969: 115-117, repro. (2nd ed. New York, 1979: 115-117, fig. 6-6. 3rd ed. Oxford, 2007: 94, 95, fig. 6.3)
1971
Novak, Barbara. "Grand Opera and the Small Still Voice." Art in America 59 (March-April 1971): 69, repro.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane. New York, 1971: 87-88.
1980
Novak, Barbara. Nature and Culture: American Landscape and Painting 1825-1875. New York, 1980: 30-31, fig. 20.
Wilmerding, John. American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850-1875, Paintings, Drawings, Photographs. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 111-113, fig. 117 (not in the exhibition).