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THOMAS EAKINS (1844– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 791 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:EAKINS (1844– )  , See also:American portrait and figure painter, was See also:born at See also:Philadelphia, on the 25th of See also:July 1844 . A See also:pupil of J . L . Ger8me, in the 1 See also:cole See also:des See also:Beaux-Arts, See also:Paris, and Also of See also:Leon See also:Bonnat, besides working in the studio of the sculptor See also:Dumont, he became a prolific portrait painter . He also painted genre pictures, sending to the Centennial See also:Exhibition at Philadelphia, in 1876, the " See also:Chess Players," now in the See also:Metropolitan Museum of See also:Art, New See also:York . A large See also:canvas, " The Surgical Clinic of See also:Professor See also:Gross," owned by See also:Jefferson Medical See also:College, Philadelphia, contains many See also:life-sized figures . See also:Eakins, with his pupil See also:Samuel See also:Murray (b . 1870), modelled the heroic " Prophets " for the See also:Witherspoon See also:Building, Philadelphia, and his See also:work in See also:painting has a decided sculptural quality . He was for some years professor of See also:anatomy at the See also:schools of the See also:Pennsylvania See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts in Philadelphia . A See also:man of See also:great inventiveness, he experimented in many directions, depicting on canvas See also:modern athletic See also:sports, the See also:negro, and See also:early American life, but he is best known by his portraits . He received awards at the Columbian (1893), Paris (1900), See also:Pan-American (1900), and the St See also:Louis (1904), Expositions; and won the See also:Temple ' Which See also:species may have been the traditional See also:emblem of See also:Roman See also:power, and the See also:Ales Jovis, is very uncertain.See also:medal in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the See also:Proctor See also:prize of the See also:National Academy of See also:Design .

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