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Where did Winslow Homer spend his childhood after his family moved from Boston?
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Winslow Homer
Breezing Up (A Fair Wind), oil on canvas by Winslow Homer, 1873ā76; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 61.5 Ć 97 cm.
When Winslow Homer was six years old, his family moved from Boston to Cambridge, Massachusetts. At that time, Cambridge was a rural village where he enjoyed a happy country childhood.1