HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

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HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o) , American painter, was born in Boston, U.S.A., on the 24th of February 1836. At the age of nineteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer. Two years later he opened a studio in Boston, and devoted much of his time to making drawings for

wood

-engravers. In 1859 he re-moved to New

York

, where he studied in the night-school of the National Academy of Design. During the American Civil War he was with the troops at the front, and contributed sketches to Harper's Weekly. The war also furnished him with the subjects for the first two pictures which he exhibited (1863), one of which was " Home, Sweet Home." His " Prisoners from the Front "perhaps his most generally popular picturewas exhibited in New

York

in 1865, and also in Paris in 1867, where he was spending the year in study. Among his other paintings in oil are " Snap the Whip " (which was exhibited at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876, and, in company with " The Country Schoolroom," at the Paris Salon the following year), " Eating Water-melon," " The

Cotton

Pickers," " Visit from the Old Mistress. Sunday Morning," " The Life-Line " and " The Coming of the

Gale

." His genius, however, has perhaps shown better in his works in water-colour, among which are his marine studies painted at Gloucester, Mass., and his " Inside the Bar,"
The Voice from the Cliffs " (pictures of English fisherwomen),

Tynemouth

TYNEMOUTH

," " Wrecking of a Vessel " and " Lost on theGrand Banks." His

work

WORK

, which principally consists of genre pictures, is characterized by strength, rugged directness and unmistakable freshness and originality, rather than by technical excellence, grace of line or beauty of colour. He was little affected by European influences. His types and scenes, apart from his few English pictures, are distinctly Americansoldiers in blue, New England children, negroes in the land of

cotton

, Gloucester fishermen and stormy Atlantic seas. Besides being a member of the Society of Painters in Water-color, New York. he was elected in 1864 an associate and the following year a member of the National Academy of Design.

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