Homer (Winslow) is born in Boston.

The son of Charles and Henrietta (Benson) Homer, Winslow Homer is born at 35 Union Street, grows up in Cambridge, works in a lithography shop in Boston, as an illustrator for Ballou’s Pictorial, then becomes a commercial printmaker. He moves to New York City in 1859, works for Harper’s during the Civil War, studies painting in New York and in Paris, then returns to the U.S. in 1869. He becomes one of the greatest marine painters of his time, he paints on the North Shore and in Maine, lives briefly in England, then returns to the U.S. and settles in Prouts Neck, Maine, where he dies on September 29, 1910.