American painter Portrait of Lane by Robert Cooke, 1835 (Courtesy of American Antiquarian Society) Fitz Henry Lane (born Nathaniel Rogers Lane, also known as Fitz Hugh Lane) (December 19, 1804 – August 14, 1865) was an American painter and printmaker of a style that would later be called Luminism, for its use of pervasive light. [Biography] Brace's Rock, Eastern Point, Glouc..