Born in a New England family, when he was 6 the family moved to Cambridge Massachusetts. He was encouraged to be an artist from his mother.
The following year after he moved to New York he exhibited his art at the National Academy of Design. His studio was in New York but his painting was almost never of the city.
Winslow Homer was well known for his great marine paintings
In the summer he traveled to New England, Pennsylvania and the Hudson river to camp, hunt, fish and sketch the views.
He is known for his great marine Painting like the Gulf Stream, the Clark and these are some