# Winslow Homer artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/winslow-homer/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T11:43:42.705Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: American
- Common media: Painting, Watercolor, Drawing, Printmaking and lithography, Etching and magazine engraving, Illustration

## Portrait

![Winslow Homer](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Winslow_Homer_by_Sarony.jpeg)
Napoleon Sarony · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer_by_Sarony.jpeg

## About Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer (1836–1910) was an American landscape painter and illustrator working within nineteenth-century American art. Public authority records consistently identify him by those life years, while reference sources especially associate him with landscape and marine subjects. His practice crossed painting, watercolor, drawing, lithography, etching, magazine engraving, and illustration, so collectors encounter his name across both unique works and printed material. Marine imagery is central to his public identity, while landscape is also a defining subject. A work attributed to Homer may therefore appear as a painting, watercolor, drawing, etching, lithograph, or illustration associated with period publishing. Appraisily’s auction page contains a broad record set reflecting this variety of formats. Because the collected sources do not establish a formal movement through a substantive institutional biography, this profile describes Homer through his documented national, subject, and medium contexts rather than assigning an unsupported school label.

## Common works and media

Works encountered in auction and appraisal contexts may include paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs, etchings, magazine engravings, and illustrations. Landscape and marine imagery are the best-supported subject categories in the collected sources. Printed or published material should be distinguished from unique paintings and drawings before comparable sales are selected.

## Market and appraisal context

Market analysis for Homer should begin by separating paintings, watercolors, drawings, and printed or illustrated works because the collected sources document all of these formats. Subject also matters when selecting comparisons: marine subjects are especially associated with Homer, while landscape is central to his identity. Appraisily’s artist page reports a large auction-record corpus, so comparable lots should be narrowed by work type, medium, subject, sale date, and available realized-price data rather than treated as one undifferentiated market. The source pack does not provide object-level evidence for condition, provenance, authenticity, signature, or edition status. Those questions require examination of the specific work and should not be inferred from the artist name or record count alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist-identity research with indexed auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Identity and medium claims here are grounded in the collected public source pack; object-specific conclusions require evidence from the work itself.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q344838
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/15044075/
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/028728726
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/63091
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer
- Wikipedia: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer
- Wikipedia: https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winslow_Homer
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/winslow-homer/