Winslow Homer

His most praised early painting Prisoners from the Front was on exhibit at the Exposition Universelle in Paris at the same time. Bufford a Boston commercial lithographer was a formative but "treadmill experience". Though his interest in depicting natural light parallels that of the early impressionists there is no evidence of direct influence as he was already a plein-air painter in America and had already evolved a personal style which was much closer to Manet than Monet.

Winslow Homer (February 24 1836 – September 29 1910) was an American landscape painter and printmaker best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th-century America and a preeminent figure in American art. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium.