Thomas Eakins

Samuel Aloysius Murray American
 Cast by Roman Bronze Works

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 764

Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) was an instructor at the Art Students’ League of Philadelphia during the winter of 1886–87, when Murray enrolled as a student. The two men shared a studio from 1892 to 1900 and portrayed many of the same people in their works. In this diminutive statuette, Eakins is shown seated cross-legged on the floor in the process of painting The Agnew Clinic (1889; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia), a canvas so large it could not fit on an easel.

Thomas Eakins, Samuel Aloysius Murray (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1869–1941 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Bronze, American

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