The American painter Winslow Homer had received…

The American painter Winslow Homer had received some recognition during his early years, but has not had any real success by midcareer.

By 1880, he had begun to show signs of increasing antisociality, deliberately shunning the company of other people.

In 1881 he unexpectedly goes to England, where he sketches and paints in Tynemouth, a remote fishing port on the North Sea.