Thomas Eakins

(1844–1916) American painter (1844–1916)

Thomas Eakins (USA, 1844–1916) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a sculptor, and a photographer. By year of birth, Thomas Eakins belongs to the chapter ‘Impressionism’ in this site’s history of art.

Thomas Eakins was born in Philadelphia and died in Philadelphia. Thomas Eakins trained at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Beaux-Arts de Paris. The teachers included Jean-Léon Gérôme and Léon Bonnat. Thomas Eakins worked in Philadelphia, Paris, Switzerland, and Germany. Wikidata associates Thomas Eakins with French Realism. The students included Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Amelia Van Buren, and Carol Storck.

The best-known works include ‘The Chess Players’, ‘The Gross Clinic’, ‘Swimming’, and ‘Max Schmitt in a Single Scull’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait painting, painting, and photographer. The catalogue has 250 works by Thomas Eakins with free images. The dated works span the years 1863–1916. Works by Thomas Eakins are held by several collections, among them Philadelphia Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Wikidata links 7 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Syrius Eberle, Edmonia Lewis, Peter Johann Theodor Janssen, Albert Neuhuys, and Hugo Kauffmann.

• Impressionism
• Swimming
• The Gross Clinic
• The Chess Players
• The Agnew Clinic
• Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
• Arcadia
• Wrestlers
• Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand
• Miss Amelia Van Buren
• Salutat