Thomas Eakins as a child. [graphic]. ca. 1850.

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Thomas Eakins as a child. [graphic]. ca. 1850.

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Eakins as a young boy with a hoop. Identification on verso (handwritten): This is one of the first photographs of Thomas Eakins. It is a copy from the original which I own. C.B. This is presented to Mr. Lawrence Fleischman by Chas. Bregler.

1 photographic print : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm.

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Eakins, Thomas, 1844-1916

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Realist painter Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1844. He was encouraged by his parents to develop his talent in art, and in 1862 he entered the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Also during this period Eakins developed an interest in anatomy, revealed later in the realistically detailed Gross Clinic, painted in 1875. In 1866 he moved to Paris, where he studied painting with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts for three years, and briefly with sculptor Augustin-...