abilities named Mary Mellen—it has now been established that Lane was the instructor and mentor to several other artists, most importantly Benjamin Champney and America's other great 19th century marine painter, William Bradford. A contemporary of the Hudson River School, he enjoyed a reputation as America's premier painter of marine subjects during his lifetime, but fell into obscurity soon after his death with the rise of French Impressionism. Lane's work would be rediscovered in the 1930s by the art collector Maxim Karolik, after which his art steadily grew in popularity among private collectors and public institutions. His work can now command at auction prices ranging as high as three to five million dollars. The largest collection of his work is currently held by the Wallace Family of Boston, Massachusetts where his work is on display throughout their family offices, private homes, and estates. Artworks The Burning of the Packet Ship "Boston", 1830, watercolor, view View of the Town of Gloucester, Mass, 1836, lithograph, view Steamer Brittania in a Gale, 1842, oil on canvas, Boston, view Gloucester Harbor from Rocky Neck, 1844, Cape Ann Museum Collection, view St. Johns, Porto Rico, ca 1850, The Mariners' Museum, view Gloucester Inner Harbor, 1850, The Mariners' Museum view The Fishing Party, 1850, view The Golden State Entering New York Harbor, 1854, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art Stage Rocks and Western Shore of Gloucester Outer Harbor, 1857, oil on canvas, John Wilmerding Collection, view Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor, ca. 1860, Princeton University Art Museum The Western Shore with Norman's Woe, 1862, Cape Ann Museum Collection, view Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor, 1862, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, view Gloucester Harbor at Sunrise, 1863, Cape Ann Museum Collection, view Clipper Ship "Sweepstakes", 1853, Museum of the City of New York Collection, view Ships Passing in Rough Seas, 1856, Private Collection, view Lumber Schooners at Evening in Penobscot Bay, 1860, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC view View of Coffin's Beach, 1862, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, view El fuerte y la isla Ten Pound, Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1847, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, view Boston Harbor- Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston Harbor, 1856, oil on canvas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, http://www.cartermuseum.org/artworks/254 Exhibitions "American Masters from Bingham to Eakins: The John Wilmerding Collection", The National Gallery of Art, May 9 – October 10, 2004 "Works of Fitz Henry Lane", Cape Ann Museum,