Eight Bells (painting)
''Eight Bells'' is an 1886 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts two sailors determining their ship's latitude. It is one of Homer's best-known paintingsCikovsky, 236 and the last of his major paintings of the 1880s that dramatically chronicle man's relationship to the ocean. History and description ''Eight Bells'' was the outgrowth of a series of oil paintings that Homer made using three wooden panels he found in the cabin of his brother's sloop at Prouts Neck, Maine. On two of the panels Homer painted scenes of mackerel fleets at Prouts Neck, one at dawn and the other at sunset; on the third he painted a grisaille study of the work that inspired ''Eight Bells'', which depicted a ship's officer standing alone, taking an observation with an Octant_(instrument), octant. Several years earlier, Homer had painted a Watercolor painting, watercolor on his voyage to England that also showed a sailor performing this activity. The painting's title is a reference t ...
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