American artists

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was always going to become a successful artist. That’s because he inherited the artistic nature of his mother Henrietta. She was a successful watercolorist and the young Winslow’s first teacher. He never really got a formal art education and mostly learned the trade along the way. The American …

Visual art in the United States predominantly consisted of portraits and landscapes based on the works of famous English artists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some history artists emerged following the American Revolution, a time when heroic paintings were in high demand from American artists. This movement ran parallel with the American Craft movement …