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Winslow Homer: Officers at Camp Benton, Maryland, 1861   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Winslow Homer  (1836–1910)  wikidata:Q344838 q:it:Winslow Homer
 
Winslow Homer
Alternative names
w. homer; homer w.; W.m Homer; Wm. Homer; Wm. (unidentified) Homer; Homer
Description American painter, photographer, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 24 February 1836 Edit this at Wikidata 29 September 1910 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Boston Maine
Work period 1859 Edit this at Wikidata–
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Category:New York, Philadelphia, Maine (USA)
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artist QS:P170,Q344838
Title
Officers at Camp Benton, Maryland, 1861
label QS:Len,"Officers at Camp Benton, Maryland, 1861"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
Winslow Homer received his early artistic training as an apprentice in Boston and then moved to New York, where he established his reputation as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly. In his role as “Special Artist” for Harper’s in 1861, Homer was sent to the front lines of the Civil War at the age of 25 to document both battle scenes and camp life.

This impressive oil painting portrays three Union officers at Camp Benton, near the Potomac River, in the early months of the war. It features Captain William Francis Bartlett (1840-1876) and Lt. Col. Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1831-1889) of the 20th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers.

This work is part of the Boston Public Library’s extensive 20th Regiment Collection, which was inspired by the gift of 287 military books by Palfrey’s widow in 1892 and significantly expanded by a gift of $10,000 from the surviving members of the 20th Regiment in 1896. This active collection now contains thousands of books, diaries, letters, and other materials relating to military affairs and Massachusetts.
Date 1861
date QS:P571,+1861-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
institution QS:P195,Q894583
Current location
Rare Books & Manuscripts Department
Accession number
BPLDC no.: 09_03_000050
Source/Photographer This image was originally posted to Flickr as Officers at Camp Benton, Maryland, 1861, original uploader was Boston Public Library

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