Susan Macdowell Eakins American 1851 - 1938 b>Portrait of Thomas Eakins , c. 1920-25 Oil on canvas Susan Macdowell met Thomas Eakins in 1876, shortly before she enrolled in classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Tine Arts, Philadelphia. A talented artist, she won several prizes in the Academy’s annual exhibitions, and exhibited in 1879 and 1880 with the Philadelphia Society of Artists. After she married Eakins in 1884, she largely put aside her artistic ambitions, although she did take up photography. She returned to painting after her husband’s death, and this intimate portrait, believed to have been based on a photograph, is one of her finest works. Gift of Charles Bregler, 1939-11-1 From the placard: Philadelphia Museum of Art

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