Get a Lane Certificate of Authenticity for your painting or a COA for your Boucher drawing or print.

For all your Lane artworks you need a Certificate of Authenticity in order to sell, to insure or to donate for a tax deduction.

How to get a Lane Certificate of Authenticity is easy. Just send us photos and dimensions and tell us what you know about the origin or history of your Lane painting, drawing or print.

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We have been authenticating Lane and issuing certificates of authenticity since 2002. We are recognized Lane experts and Lane certified appraisers. We issue COAs and appraisals for all Lane artworks.

Our Lane paintings, drawings and print authentications are accepted and respected worlwide.

Each COA is backed by in-depth research and analysis authentication reports.

The Lane certificates of authenticity we issue are based on solid, reliable and fully referenced art investigations, authentication research, analytical work and forensic studies.

We are available to examine your Lane painting, drawing or print anywhere in the world.

You will generally receive your certificates of authenticity and authentication report within two weeks. Some complicated cases with difficult to research Lane paintings or drawings take longer.

Our clients include Lane collectors, investors, tax authorities, insurance adjusters, appraisers, valuers, auctioneers, Federal agencies and many law firms.

We perform Fitz Henry Lane art authentication, appraisal, certificates of authenticity (COA), analysis, research, scientific tests, full art authentications. We will help you sell your Fitz Henry Lane or we will sell it for you.

Fitz Henry Lane was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light. Nathaniel Rogers Lane was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His father was a sailmaker who died when Lane was only sixteen. A childhood disease (possibly polio, possibly the result of accidental poisoning) left Lane with partially crippled legs, and he walked on crutches for the rest of his life.

In 1831, for unknown reasons, he applied to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to change his name to Fitz Henry Lane. At some point in the early 20th century, Lane’s name became confused and was mistakenly believed to be Fitz Hugh Lane. He never signed any paintings as Fitz Hugh Lane, but twice signed as Fitz Henry Lane. Usually, his signature was F. H. Lane or F. H. L. From 1832 to 1847 he worked in Boston, before returning to Gloucester where he spent the rest of his life.

A contemporary of the Hudson River School, his best-known paintings depict maritime and nautical subjects, especially harbors and seaports. He had a good reputation in Gloucester and Boston during his lifetime, but fell into obscurity after his death. His work only began to receive greater recognition in the mid-20th century, when he was identified as one of the earliest pioneers of Luminism. His work now commands high prices; The Golden Rule was sold at auction for nearly $4 million in 2000. Still wondering about a 19th century American painting in your family collection? Contact us…it could be by Fitz Henry Lane.