Castine Harbor and Town (1851) and Castine from Fort George (1856)

Each 25” x 17” print costs $10. All proceeds support the Friends of Witherle Library.

 

 

 

Witherle Memorial Library owned the original paintings at one time, but sold them in the 1960’s. The revenue was used to create the basis of the library’s endowment.

Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light. Beginning in the early 1840’s Lane would declare himself publicly to be a marine painter while simultaneously continuing his career as a lithographer. He quickly attained an eager and enthusiastic patronage from several of the leading merchants and mariners in Boston, New York, and his native Gloucester. Lane’s career would ultimately find him painting harbor and ship portraits, along with the occasional purely pastoral scene, up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, from as far north as the Penobscot Bay/Mount Desert Island region of Maine, to as far south as San Juan, Puerto Rico.