Art of the Americas
Art of the Americas
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
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.
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