Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams
Thomas Eakins (American, 1844–1916)LinkedCulture matchlcp-d878681cec91
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Philadelphia
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 31285
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Thomas Eakins aimed to paint the human figure with uncompromising realism, executing likenesses that focus on introspection and psychological depth. A family friend, Mary Adeline Williams sat for this portrait in 1899, a year before she would move into the Philadelphia home of Eakins and his wife, artist Susan MacDowell Eakins. Although the composition presents Addie (as she was known) as straight-laced and severe, she was described by Susan Eakins as active and engaged—riding bicycles, going to art exhibitions, and socializing between the sittings for this work.
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- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Provenance
- Thomas Eakins, from 1899 to 1916; Eakins Estate/Susan Macdowell Eakins, from 1916 to 1939; Babcock Galleries, New York City, 1939; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1939.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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