Little is known on this side of the Atlantic of Winslow Homer (1836-1910), painter of the New World.
However, at the time of his death, he was
"perhaps the best known artist"
there , according to Chris Riopelle in charge of 19th century paintings at the National Gallery in London.
This institution therefore devotes a retrospective to him.
She gives the wrong to those who call Homer "the American Turner" but she still has the merit of pointing out a number of qualities in about fifty paintings.
Like most of his colleagues, this son of a self-taught hardware dealer who ended up a taciturn grand bourgeois recluse in his house-studio on the Prouts Neck peninsula (Maine) began his career as an illustrator.
He made a name for himself in the 1860s covering the Civil War for the hugely popular New York magazine
Harper's Weekly
.
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