Lane, (Nathaniel Rogers) Fitz Hugh (1804–1865)

US painter and lithographer. He began his career as a lithographer, a skill that influenced his later oil paintings. He influenced many other painters, including Frederick Church, who admired his ability to record the clarity of light and sky. In the late 20th century he was rediscovered as a painter of seascapes; his Owl's Head, Penobscot Bay, Maine (1862) reveals his skill. Lane was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Except for a brief foray to Boston, he spent most of his life in Gloucester.