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Also Known As Nathaniel Rogers Lane • Fitz Hugh Lane
Born December 19, 1804 • Gloucester • Massachusetts
Died August 13, 1865 (aged 60) • Gloucester • Massachusetts
Movement / Style luminism • realism

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Gustave Courbet
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Ryder, Albert Pinkham: The Hunter
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John Marin
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William Bradford
American painter [1823–1892]
Milton Avery, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1961
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Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
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Alice Neel
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Claude Monet: Self-portrait in a Beret
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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
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Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
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Paul Nash
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Boudin, Eugène: Women on the Beach at Berck
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Paul Signac
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“The Mask of Joseph Vernet,” chalk and pastel portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Fr.
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