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Around the 1830s Charles Savage Homer, hardware seller (and father of Winslow Homer) "conducted his affairs in various stores near Dock Square and Merchants' Row." [17] Boston mayor Samuel C. Cobb was also in the shipping trade, and around 1873 worked from Merchants Row. [18]
Homer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on February 24, 1836, the second of three sons of Charles Savage Homer and Henrietta Maria Benson Homer, both from long lines of New Englanders. His mother was a gifted amateur watercolorist and Homer's first teacher. She and her son had a close relationship throughout their lives.
He was the son of William Flagg Homer's youngest brother Charles Savage Homer (1809–1898). [13] Charles was a less successful businessman, who lost money in the California gold rush, and Winslow spent much of his first two decades, and many later summers, visiting while living nearby in a modest rented farmhouse.
Henrietta Benson Homer Untitled (Rose Study), 1873. Henrietta Maria Benson Homer (1809–1884) was an American botanical artist. [1] Homer née Benson was born in 1809 in Bucksport, Massachusetts (it became part of Maine in 1820). In 1833 she married Charles Savage Homer, with whom she had three sons. [2] Their middle son was the painter ...
the artist's brother and executor, Charles Savage Homer, New York, West Townsend, Massachusetts, and Prouts Neck, Maine, 1910–1911: Credit line: Gift of Charles S. Homer, 1911: References: The Met object ID: 11137 ; Artstor artwork ID: 18428847 ; Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History ; Source/Photographer
Mary Cunningham [Homer] Norcross was the elder sister of Charles Savage Homer; father of American artist Winslow Homer. [47] With this, Otis and his siblings were first cousins of the artist. The Homer family, stems from Ettingshall , Warwick Co., England and dates from 1690 in America, having originally settled in Yarmouth, Massachusetts ...
In 1851 the building was expanded, [11] to a design by Charles A. Alexander. In 1868 it had "the first hotel passenger elevator in Boston." [12] By the 1860s it also had "billiard halls, telegraph office, and cafe." [13] In the late 19th century it was described as "the headquarters of the shoe-and-leather trade" in the city. [14]
English: Recto: A soldier in Civil War uniform, stands in the foreground, feet spread, holding a rifle placed diagonally across his body in his left hand, using a long rod in his right hand to tamp gun powder down the barrel of the rifle.