Winslow Homer’s painting “Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)” showing a catboat sailing on Gloucester Harbor with “Gloucester” on the stern is one of the 19th century American painter’s most famous ...

APPRAISER: Winslow Homer started working in watercolor in about 1873 in Gloucester. These works date from slightly later, about 1878. The medium of the one closest to you is pure watercolor.