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WINSLOW HOMER (1836-191o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 639 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WINSLOW See also:HOMER (1836-191o)  , See also:American painter, was See also:born in See also:Boston, U.S.A., on the 24th of See also:February 1836 . At the See also:age of nineteen he was apprenticed to a lithographer . Two years later he opened a studio in Boston, and devoted much of his See also:time to making drawings for See also:wood-engravers . In 1859 he re-moved to New See also:York, where he studied in the See also:night-school of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design . During the American See also:Civil See also: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 " See also:Home, Sweet Home." His " Prisoners from the Front "—perhaps his most generally popular picture—was exhibited in New York in 1865, and also in See also:Paris in 1867, where he was spending the See also:year in study . Among his other paintings in oil are " Snap the See also:Whip " (which was exhibited at the See also:Philadelphia Centennial See also:Exhibition of 1876, and, in See also:company with " The See also:Country Schoolroom," at the Paris See also:Salon the following year), " Eating See also:Water-See also:melon," " The See also:Cotton Pickers," " Visit from the Old See also:Mistress . See also:Sunday See also:Morning," " The See also:Life-See also:Line " and " The Coming of the See also:Gale." His See also:genius, however, has perhaps shown better in his See also:works in water-See also:colour, among which are his marine studies painted at See also:Gloucester, See also:Mass., and his " Inside the See also:Bar," The See also:Voice from the Cliffs " (pictures of See also:English fisherwomen), See also:Tynemouth," " Wrecking of a See also:Vessel " and " Lost on theGrand See also:Banks." His See also:work, which principally consists of genre pictures, is characterized by strength, rugged directness and unmistakable freshness and originality, rather than by technical excellence, See also:grace of line or beauty of colour . He was little affected by See also:European influences . His types and scenes, apart from his few English pictures, are distinctly American—soldiers in See also:blue, New See also:England See also:children, negroes in the See also:land of cotton, Gloucester fishermen and stormy See also:Atlantic seas . Besides being a member of the Society of Painters in Water-color, New York. he was elected in 1864 an See also:associate and the following year a member of the National Academy of Design .

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