American1836–1910
Winslow Homer
An American painter who began as a magazine illustrator during the Civil War. He is best known for scenes of the sea and of the people who worked and played beside it.
A life in paintings
- 1836Born
- 1839Photography is announced
Daguerre’s process is made public in Paris. Painting no longer has to be the only way to record how things look.
Source: Wikipedia - 1861American Civil War
The war begins. Homer covers it for Harper’s Weekly as an illustrator at the front.
Source: Wikipedia - 1870
- 1874
- 1878
- 1898
- 1910Died