Margaret Eakins
Thomas Eakins
1880s
Medium
Glass positive
Classification
Transparencies
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Charles Bregler, 1947
Accession Number
47.62.3
Tags
PortraitsWomen
About the Artist
Thomas Eakins · 1844–1916
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) was an American painter, photographer, and educator who carried 19th-century American Realism to its highest achievement. Based in Philadelphia throughout his life, he created uncompromising portraits and genre scenes that depicted American life with a scientific precision and psychological depth unprecedented in his time. Born into an educated Philadelphia family, Eakin...