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Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville  wikidata:Q20812824 reasonator:Q20812824
Artist
Thomas Eakins  (1844–1916)  wikidata:Q214905 s:en:Author:Thomas Eakins q:en:Thomas Eakins
 
Thomas Eakins
Alternative names
pseudonym: Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwaite; Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins; Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins; C.D. Cook; Eakins
Description American painter, aquarellist, sculptor and photographer
Date of birth/death 25 July 1844 Edit this at Wikidata 25 June 1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Philadelphia Philadelphia
Work period 1869 Edit this at Wikidata–1916 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Philadelphia (ca. 1860–1916), Paris (1866–1870), Netherlands
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creator QS:P170,Q214905
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Title
Portrait of Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Rear Admiral George Wallace Melville"
label QS:Lfr,"Vice-amiral George Wallace Melville"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Portrait of Rear-Admiral George W. Melville (1841-1912).
Yale University Library Visual Resources Collection accession number M5020_0012_087
Date 1904 Edit this at Wikidata
Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
institution QS:P195,Q510324
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1929-184-6 (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929
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Source/Photographer Yale University Library Visual Resources Collection

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