Background
Lane was the son of a poor drawing-master from Worcester.
Lane was the son of a poor drawing-master from Worcester.
Aged 14 he was apprenticed in London to John Barrow of Weston Place, Saint Pancras, an artist and colourer of prints.
Lane first came into notice as a painter of water-colour portraits and miniatures. About 1825 he took up oil-painting. He was left-handed, but with the help of Alexander George Fraser became proficient.
Lane died in an accident: while waiting for a friend at the horse repository in Gray"s Inn Road he by mistake stepped upon a skylight, and, falling on the pavement below, was killed, 21 May 1828.
He was buried in Old Saint Pancras church-yard.