Thomas Eakins – Artwork & Bio of the American Painter

By Artchive / April 6, 2023 March 13, 2024

Thomas Eakins was an American painter born on 25 July 1844 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1862, Eakins enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, studying drawing and anatomy. He furthered his anatomical studies at Jefferson Medical College before moving to Europe, where he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In 1870, Eakins returned to Philadelphia, where he gained recognition as a portraitist and worked as an art instructor.

Eakins developed his interest in photography and capturing human subjects in motion in the 1880s. He worked expressly with the medium, creating some controversial works. Eakins received various important commissions during the last years of his career, one of which was a portrait of Dr. David Hayes Agnew. Due to failing health, his artistic contributions began to decline before he died of heart failure on 25 June 1916 in his birth city.

What was Thomas Eakins Known For?

Thomas Eakins was known for painting portraits, scenes. Eakins accurately depicted his subjects, shunning any romantic or imaginative addition. To further investigated the science of humanity, Eakins took extra anatomical classes to improve his art. His mature works show the impact of his later interest in photography.

Who was Thomas Eakins Influenced By?

Thomas Eakins was influenced by Jean-Leon Gerome and Eadweard Muybridge. Eakins studied under Gerome at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, adopting his teacher’s focus on the human figure as his style. Thomas also studied the works of Diego Velazquez in Spain. Muybridge part in Eakins’ artistic development came to play in the early-1880s when both artists worked together on capturing moving subjects.

What Art Movement was Thomas Eakins Associated With?

Thomas Eakins was associated with the Realism art movement. Eakins strictly painted unadulterated depictions of his subjects in a realist style

Thomas Eakins Artwork

Below are some of the artworks of Thomas Eakins

Baby at Play

Baseball Players Practicing

Cowboy Singing

Max Schmitt in a Single Scull

Pushing for Rail

Starting Out after Rail

Taking the Count

The Agnew Clinic

The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog

The Biglin Brothers Racing

The Chess Player

The Concert Singer

The Gross Clinic

The Pair-Oared Shell

The Pathetic Song

The Writing Master

All Thomas Eakins Artwork on Artchive

Artwork Name	Year	Medium
Monsignor Diomede Falconia	1905	oil,canvas
Mother (Portrait of Annie Williams Gandy)	c.1903	oil,canvas
Mrs. Mary Arthur
Mrs Richard Day
Music	1904	oil,canvas
Negro boy on a bay horse
Nine studies of a figure
Nude Man Seated
Nude woman reclining on a couch	c.1863
Nude Woman Standing
Portrait of Mrs. Kern Dodge (Helen Peterson Greene)	1904	oil,canvas
Portrait of Mrs. Leigo	1906	oil,canvas
Portrait of Mrs. W.H. Bowden	1906
Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand	1874	oil,canvas
Portrait of Professor William D. Marks	c.1886	oil,canvas
Portrait of Robert C. Ogden	1904
Portrait of Samuel Murray	1889	oil,canvas
Portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth	1900	oil,canvas
Portrait of Sarah Ward Brinton	1878	oil,canvas
Portrait of Sebastiano Cardinal Martinelli	1902	oil,canvas
Thomas Eakins and J. Laurie Wallace	1883
Thomas Eakins and J. Laurie Wallace	1883
Thomas Eakins and John Laurie Wallace on a Beach	c.1883
Two nude boys boxing in atelier
Unidentified model, Thomas Anschutz and J. Laurie Wallace	1883
Unidentified model, Thomas Anschutz, and J. Laurie Wallace	1883
Wallace Posing	c.1883
Weda Cook	1891	oil,canvas
Whistling for Plover	1874	watercolor,paper
William H Macdowell
A May Morning in the Park ( The Fairman Robers Four in Hand)	1880	oil,canvas
Amelia Van Buren with a Cat
Amelia Van Buren with Cat	1891
Painting
Painting
Painting Cowboys in the Bad Lands	1888	oil,canvas
Peasants Crossing a Stream	1858
Perspective drawing for baseball players practicing
Perspective Drawing for Hunting
Perspective Drawing for The Biglin Brothers Turning The Stake
Perspective Drawing for The Biglin Brothers Turning The Stake
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Portrait of Susan MacDowell Eakins	1899	oil,canvas
Portrait of William B. Kurtz	1903	oil,canvas
Portrait of William H. MacDowell	1891	oil,canvas
Portrait of William H. MacDowell	1904	oil,canvas
Portraits
Portraits
Portraits
Portraits
Portraits
Portraits
William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuykill River	1877	oil,canvas
William Rush Carving The Allegorical Figure Of The Schuylkill
William Rush s Model	1908	oil,canvas
Will Schuster And A Black	1876
Woman Knitting
Young Girl Meditating	1877	watercolor,paper
Young Girl Meditating (study)	1877	oil,canvas
An Arcadian	c.1883	oil,canvas
Anatomical drawing
Anatomical studies	c.1879
A Negress
Arcadia	1883	oil,canvas
Archbishop James Frederick Wood	1876
Archbishop William Henry Elder	1903	oil,canvas
A Spanish Woman	c.1871
A Street Scene
A Street Scene in Sevilla	1870	oil,canvas
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Professionals at Rehearsal	1883	oil,canvas
Pushing for Rail	1874	oil,canvas
Retrospection	c.1880	watercolor,paper
Sailboats Racing on the Delaware	1874	oil,canvas
Sailboats Racing' study of the Delaware River
Sailing	c.1875	oil,canvas
Salutat	1898	oil,canvas
Samuel Murray
Self-portrait	1904	oil,canvas
Seventy Years Ago	1877	watercolor,gouache,paper
At the Piano	c.1871
Baby at Play	1876	oil,canvas
Baseball Players Practicing	1875	watercolor,paper
Benjamin Eakins and Samuel Murray with bicycles	1895 - 1899
Between Rounds	1898 - 1899	oil,canvas
Between Rounds Study for the Timer	1899
Billy Smith	c.1898	oil,canvas
Billy Smith	1898
Boy laying in Atelier
Boy Reclining		oil,canvas
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River	1881	oil,canvas
Shad Fishing at Gloucester on the Delaware River	1881	oil,canvas
Ships and Sailboats on the Delaware	1874
Signora Gomez d Arza	1902	oil,canvas
Sketch for Between Rounds
Sketch for Cowboys in the Badlands	1888
Sketch for Cowboys in the Badlands	1888
Sketch for In Grandmother's Time
Sketch for Maybelle	1898
Sketch for Mr. Neelus Peeler0s Conditions	1879
Captain Joseph Lapsley Wilson	c.1895
Carmelita Requena	1870	oil,canvas
Chronophotography	1885
Clara (Clara J. Mather)	c.1900	oil,canvas
Clinker, G509	1892
Columbus in Prison
Compositional Study for William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
Cowboy Singing		watercolor,paper
Cowboy Singing
Delaware Riverscape from Gloucester
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph	1910
Photograph study for The Wrestlers
Sketch for The Chess Players
Sketch for the Crucifixion	1880
Sketch for the Pathetic Song
Sketch of an interior
Standing Female Nude	1908	oil,canvas
Standing Nude	1876
Standing Nude (Samuel Murray)
Starting Out after Rail	1874	oil,canvas
Studens wrestling in the nude	1883
Studies for William Rush	1875 - 1876
Delaware River Scene	c.1881
Drawing	1872
Drawing for The Pair Oared Shell	1872
Drawing of a Camel and Rider	1858
Drawing of a Workman
Drawing Of Girard Avenue Bridge
Drawing The Icosahedron	1859
Drawing the Seine	1882	watercolor,paper
Drifting	1875	watercolor,paper
Dr John H Brinton	1876	oil,canvas
Portrait
Portrait
Portrait
Portrait
Portrait
Portrait of Adam S. Bare	1903
Portrait of Alfred Bryan Wall
Portrait of Alfred Reynolds in the Taubman Museum of Art
Portrait of Amelia Van Buren	c.1891	oil,canvas
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies for William Rush	1876
Studies of a Baby
Studies of Game Birds, probably Viginia Rails		oil,canvas
Study for an Arcadian	1870 - 1910
Eakins Perspective Study Of Boy Viewing Object	1910
Elizabeth at the Piano
Elizabeth Crowell with a Dog	1873 - 1874	oil,canvas
Ernest Lee Parker	1910
Female Nude	1880 - 1884	watercolor,paper
Female nude figure study for Arcadia
Frank Jay St. John	1900	oil,canvas
Gears
General George Cadwalader	1880
Grouse
Portrait of an old man in the nude	c.1885
Portrait of Asburyh W. Lee	1905	oil,canvas
Portrait of a Woman	c.1894 - 1900	oil,canvas
Portrait of Benjamin Sharp	1903	oil,canvas
Portrait of Charles Edmund Dana
Portrait of Charles Gruppe	1904
Portrait of Charles Linford, the Artist		oil,canvas
Portrait of Charles Percival Buck	1904	oil,canvas
Portrait of Douglass Morgan Hall	1889	oil,canvas
Portrait of Dr. Albert C Getchell	1907
Study for Ships and Sailboats on the Delaware	1874
Study for Taking the Count	1898
Study for The bathhole	1883
Study for The bathhole	1883
Study for the Fairman Rogers Four in Hand	1879
Study for The Meadows	c.1882
Study for The Swimming Hole	1884
Study for The Swimming Hole	1884
Study of a Girl's Head		oil,canvas
Study of a Girl's Head	1868 - 1869
Hauling the Seine	1882
Head of a Cowboy
Head of a Warrior
Hiawatha
Home Ranch	1892
Home scene	1871	oil,canvas
Homespun	1881	watercolor,paper
Illustrated letter written to his family	1866
Illustrated letter written to his family	1866
Illustration	1878
Portrait of Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka	c.1913	oil,canvas
Portrait of Dr. Horatio C Wood	1886	oil,canvas
Portrait of Dr. William Thompson		oil,canvas
Portrait of Elizabeth R. Coffin
Portrait of Florence Einstein	1905
Portrait of Francesco Romano		oil,canvas
Portrait of Frances Eakins
Portrait of Frank B. A. Linton	1904	oil,canvas
Portrait of Frank Hamilton Cushing	1895	oil,canvas
Portrait of Frank Lindsay Greenwalt	1903
Study of a horse's leg for the Fairman Rogers Four in Hand
Study of a Leg	1869
Study of an old man	1911
Study of a woman's head	1881
Study of Dr. Agnew for the Agnew Clinic
Swimming Hole sketch
Taking the Count	1898	oil,canvas
Taking up the Net	1881	watercolor,paper
Talcott Williams
The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog	1884 - 1889	oil,canvas
Illustration for Neelus Peeler's conditions	1879
In Grandmothers Time	1876	oil,canvas
In the Studio (unfinished)	1884	watercolor,paper
J. Laurie Wallace and unidentified model	1883
John Biglin in a Single Scull	1873 - 1874	watercolor,paper
John Biglin in a Single Scull	1873 - 1874	oil,canvas
Kathrin	1872	oil,canvas
Landscape
Landscape	1881 - 1884
Legs of a Seated Model
Portrait of General E. Burd Grubb
Portrait of George F. Barker	1886
Portrait of Harriet Husson Carville
Portrait of Harrison S. Morris	1896	oil,canvas
Portrait of Henry Augustus Rowland	1897	oil,canvas
Portrait of Henry Ossawa Tanner	1897	oil,canvas
Portrait of James Wright	1890	oil,canvas
Portrait of Jennie Dean Kershaw	c.1897	oil,canvas
Portrait of John McLure Hamilton	1895	oil,canvas
Portrait of Leslie W. Miller	1901	oil,canvas
The Biglin Brothers Racing	1873	oil,canvas
The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake Boat	1873	oil,canvas
The Brinton House	1878
The Cello Player	1896	oil,canvas
The Chess Player	1876	oil,canvas
The Concert Singer	1890 - 1892	oil,canvas
The Courtship	1876	oil,canvas
The Dancing Lesson	1878
The Dean's Roll Call	1889	oil,canvas
The Honorable John A. Thorton	1903
Lincoln and Grant	1893 - 1894
Male Nude (Samuel Murray)
Male Nudes in a Seated Tug of War	1884
Man in Turban
Margaret in Skating Costume	1871	oil,canvas
Masked nude woman, seated
Maud Cook	1895	oil,canvas
Maybelle	1898	oil,canvas
Mending the Net	1881	oil,canvas
Mending the Net	1882	watercolor,paper
Portrait of Letitia Wilson Jordan	1888	oil,canvas
Portrait of Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson	1908	oil,canvas
Portrait of Lucy Lewis	1896	oil,canvas
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams	c.1900	oil,canvas
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams	1899	oil,canvas
Portrait of Miss Helen Parker	1908	oil,canvas
Portrait of Miss Mary Perkins	c.1902
Portrait of Montague Flagg (The Wanderer)	1887
Portrait of Mrs. Hubbard (sketch)		oil,canvas
Portrait of Mrs. James W. Crowell	1870 - 1875	oil,canvas
The map
The Meadows, Gloucester, New Jersey	1882 - 1883	oil,canvas
The Oarsmen ( The Schreiber Brothers)	1874	oil,canvas
The Pair Oared Shell	1872	oil,canvas
The Pathetic Song	c.1881	oil,canvas
The Thinker (Portrait of Louis Kenton)	1900	oil,canvas
The Veteran (Portrait of Geo. Reynolds)		oil,canvas
The Wrestlers	1899	oil,canvas
The Writing Master (Benjamin Eakins)	1882	oil,canvas
Thomas Eakins and J. Laurie Wallace	1883
Thomas Eakins carrying a woman	1885
William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River	1908	Oil on Canvas
The Swimming Hole	c.1883	Oil on Canvas
Miss Van Buren	c. 1886-90	Oil On Canvas
The Artist's Wife And His Setter Dog	1884-89	Oil On Canvas
The Thinker (portrait Of Louis N. Kenton)	1900	Oil On Canvas
Starting Out After Rail	1874	Oil On Canvas Mounted On Masonite
Portrait Of William H. Macdowell	c. 1904	Oil On Canvas
Portrait Of Douglass Morgan Hall	c. 1889	Oil On Canvas
John Biglin In A Single Scull	1873-74	Oil On Canvas
Portrait Of Archbishop William Henry Elder	1903	Oil On Canvas
Portrait of Maud Cook	1895	Oil on Canvas
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull	1871	Oil on Canvas
The Crucifixion	1880	Oil on Canvas
Portrait of Walt Whitman	1887	Oil on Canvas
Self-Portrait	c.1902	Oil on Canvas
The Agnew Clinic	1889	Oil on Canvas
The Gross Clinic	1875	Oil on Canvas