[Two male students in Grecian Costume before a plaster cast of Aphrodite in the cast room of the Pennsylvania Academy]

Creator

American Photographer · 1844–1916

Thomas Eakins spent virtually his entire life in and around Philadelphia, except for a three-and-a-half-year period between 1866 and 1870 when he was an art student in Paris. Primarily a painter and sculptor, Eakins did not make photographs for exhibition. He made private portraits of family and friends, scientific documents, and used his photographs as teaching tools for his art classes and his w