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About Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eakins
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was a famous American painter, photographer and sculptor born in 1844 in Philadelphia, PA.
Alexander Eakins, who was married to Frances Fife, emmigrated to the U.S. from Northern Ireland and settled on a farm at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He was a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian and pursued his craft of weaving. Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was the first of five children born to Benjamin Eakins and Caroline Cowperthwait. He married Susan MacDowell, a former student, in 1884. Benjamin and Caroline had a daughter, Frances Eakins, who married William James Crowell.
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"I was born July 25, 1844. My father's father was from the north of Ireland of the Scotch Irish. On my mother's side my blood is English and Hollandish. I was a pupil of Gérôme (also of Bonnat and of Dumont, sculptor). I have taught in life classes, and lectured on anatomy continuously since 1873. I have painted many pictures and done a little sculpture.
For the public I believe my life is all in my work.
Yours truly,
Thomas Eakins
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The above was taken from a PBS Special - Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life
From 1866 to 1870, Eakins traveled to Europe where he spent much time studying and apprenticing in France and Spain. He studied with Gérôme, A. A. Dumont, Bonnat, and admired artists such as Velázquez.( http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Eakins__Thomas.html)
Thomas was friends with sculptor Samuel Murray, poet Walt Whitman and photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He died of heart failure shortly before one o'clock in the afternoon of Sunday, June 25, 1916 in Philadelphia, PA. He died in the same home that he was born in. Eakins had requested that there be no funeral or flowers and that his body be cremated. His ashes were kept in the family house until Susan Eakins' death in 1938, at which time her ashes and his were buried in the family plot not far from the Schuylkill River.
NYT: October 24, 1993
ART VIEW; Thomas Eakins Ventured Deep Into the Psyche
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEEDB1F39F937A157...
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Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins's Timeline
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July 25, 1844
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Carrollton Square, Philadelphia, Montgomery CO, PA, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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1866
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Age 21
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Self Employed
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1876
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Age 31
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art
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1882
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Age 37
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art
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June 25, 1916
Age 71
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Philadelphia, Montgomery CO, PA, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Zane Street Grammar School
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Central High School, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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