She did not ally herself with Eakins ' ardent student supporters, and later wrote, " A curious instinct of self-preservation kept me outside the magic circle.

Among her fellow students was Thomas Eakins, later the controversial director of the Academy.

A few months later Gérôme would also accept Eakins as a student.

Eakins later favoured the use of multiple exposures on a single photographic negative to study motion more precisely, while Muybridge continued to use multiple cameras to produce separate images which could also be projected by his zoopraxiscope.

For the length of his professional career, from the early 1870s until his health began to fail some 40 years later, Eakins worked exactingly from life, choosing as his subject the people of his hometown of Philadelphia.

Thomas Eakins observed his father at work and by twelve demonstrated skill in precise line drawing, perspective, and the use of a grid to lay out a careful design, skills he later applied to his art.

In 1874 Eakins and Crowell became engaged ; they were still engaged five years later, when Crowell died of meningitis in 1879.

In his later years Eakins persistently asked his female portrait models to pose in the nude, a practice which would have been all but prohibited in conventional Philadelphia society.

In all, about eight hundred photographs are now attributed to Eakins and his circle, most of which are figure studies, both clothed and nude, and portraits.

" Other outstanding examples of his portraits include The Agnew Clinic ( 1889 ), Eakins ' most important commission and largest painting, which depicted another eminent American surgeon, Dr. David Hayes Agnew, performing a mastectomy ; The Dean's Roll Call ( 1899 ), featuring Dr. James W. Holland, and Professor Leslie W. Miller ( 1901 ), portraits of educators standing as if addressing an audience ; a portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing ( ca.

As usual, most of the sitters were engaged at Eakins ' request, and were given the portraits when Eakins had completed them.

1906 ), Eakins took advantage of the brilliant vestments of the offices to animate the compositions in a way not possible in his other male portraits.

As a result, Eakins came to rely on his friends and family members to model for portraits.

The American painting collection at the museum ranges from 18th-century portraits and 19th-century landscape painting to American Impressionism and modernism with works by acclaimed artists John Singleton Copley, Thomas Sully, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and Thomas Hart Benton.

* American: the collection includes early American portraiture by James Peale and Mather Brown ; many works by painters of the Hudson River School, realist works by Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, and works by the American impressionists Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase

Among the many masterpieces acquired during his tenure were works by Cecilia Beaux, William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and Edmund Tarbell.

One of Thomas Eakins ' many paintings of the brothers, “ The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake-Boat ”, was of the midpoint of the race.

In January 2007 the University sold Thomas Eakins ' painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $ 68 million, to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Eakins also took a keen interest in the new technologies of motion photography, a field in which he is now seen as an innovator.

Eakins took the dismissal hard.

Some figures appear to be detailed transcriptions and tracings from the photographs by some device like a magic lantern, which Eakins took pains to cover up with oil paint.

Eakins ' lifelong interest in the figure, nude or nearly so, took several thematic forms.

Thomas Eakins painted him in Zuni costume and John K. Hillers took photographs at Zuni, some showing him as a Bow Priest.

Calder immigrated to the United States in 1868 and settled in Philadelphia, where he studied with Joseph A. Bailly, and took classes ( as would his son Alexander Stirling Calder ) with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Eakins believed in teaching by example and letting the students find their own way with only terse guidance.

After their childless marriage, she only painted sporadically and spent most of her time supporting her husband's career, entertaining guests and students, and faithfully backing him in his difficult times with the Academy, even when some members of her family aligned against Eakins.

She and Eakins both shared a passion for photography, both as photographers and subjects, and employed it as a tool for their art.

Homer never taught in a school or privately, as did Thomas Eakins, but his works strongly influenced succeeding generations of American painters for their direct and energetic interpretation of man's stoic relationship to an often neutral and sometimes harsh wilderness.

Thomas Worth, Willy Miller, Walter M. Dunk, Eastman Johnson and Tanner ’ s own teacher Thomas Eakins had tackled the subject in their artwork.

At the same time that he made these initial ventures into outdoor themes, Eakins produced a series of domestic Victorian interiors, often with his father, his sisters or friends as the subjects.

Eakins borrowed it for subsequent exhibitions, where it drew strong reactions, such as that of the New York Daily Tribune, which both acknowledged and damned its powerful image, " but the more one praises it, the more one must condemn its admission to a gallery where men and women of weak nerves must be compelled to look at it.

Since the 1990s, Eakins has emerged as a major figure in sexuality studies in art history, for both the homoeroticism of his male nudes and for the complexity of his attitudes toward women.

He also attended the atelier of Léon Bonnat, a realist painter who emphasized anatomical preciseness, a method adapted by Eakins.

It was a completely original conception, true to Eakins ' firsthand experience, and an almost startlingly successful image for the artist, who had struggled with his first outdoor composition less than a year before.

Even Susan Macdowell Eakins, a strong painter and former student who married Eakins in 1884, was not sentimentalized: despite its richness of color, The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog ( ca.

William Rush was a celebrated Colonial sculptor and ship carver, a revered example of an artist-citizen who figured prominently in Philadelphia civic life, and a founder of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts where Eakins had started teaching.

In one version of the painting from that year, the nude is seen from the front, being helped down from the model stand by an artist who bears a strong resemblance to Eakins.

He taught hundreds of students, among them his future wife Susan Macdowell, African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Thomas Anshutz, who taught, in turn, Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, and Everett Shinn, future members of the Ashcan School, and other realists and artistic heirs to Eakins ' philosophy.

Eakins, who repeatedly encounters alternate versions of himself, finds himself in progressively more bizarre situations.

* Benson, Richard, Lay This Laurel: An album on the Saint-Gaudens memorial on Boston Common, honoring black and white men together, who served the Union cause with Robert Gould Shaw and died with him July 18, 1863, Eakins Press, 1973.

The O ' Eakins are stated to descend from the Irish Ui Tuirtre, who were descended from Fiach Tort, son of Colla Uais of the Oirghialla which were the descendants of Eochaid Doimlén, son of Cairbre Lifechair, son of Cormac Ulfhada and his wife Etaine, whose ancestry goes back another forty-nine generations in Ireland to its earliest Gaelic founders, the Milesians.

Painter John McLure Hamilton, who began his art education at the Academy under Thomas Eakins, describes the contributions Mr. Coates made during his tenure:

In 1886, he was appointed Professor of Painting and Drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, replacing Thomas Eakins who was dismissed due to his use of nude models.

He frequently studied the works of realist painters such as Edgar Degas, Edward Hopper, and Thomas Eakins, who are strongly represented in the Art Institute's collection.