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American Primitive 'Road to N. Scituate', ca. 1860, unsigned, with one legged man on crutches and dog passing family standing outside their cottage, a road sign in foreground, in fancy Victorian gilt gesso frame. SS: 11 1/2" x 15 1/2", OS: 19 1/2" x 23 1/2". Damage to frame. Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts with the name of Nathaniel Rogers Lane, was crippled in childhood and walked with crutches. He had no formal training but early learned printmaking as he worked for Pendleton's Lithography shop in Boston. After leaving the shop in 1847, he worked as a painter primarily in Gloucester where he developed his mature style of a highly personal luminism of light-filled seascapes, harbor and shoreline views. In the 1850s, he pioneered new chemical pigments in red, yellow, orange and also was one of the first to try photography to help his studio painting process.