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Artist
Unidentified Artist
Sitter
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, 25 Jul 1844 - 25 Jun 1916
Frances Eakins, 01 Nov 1848 - 22 Aug 1940
Date
c. 1851
Type
Photograph
Medium
Quarter-plate daguerreotype with applied color
Dimensions
Image/Sight: 9 × 6.6 cm (3 9/16 × 2 5/8")
Mat (brass): 10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4")
Case open: 12 × 19.4 × 1.3 cm (4 3/4 × 7 5/8 × 1/2")
Case closed: 12 × 9.7 × 1.9 cm (4 3/4 × 3 13/16 × 3/4")
Topic
Costume\Jewelry\Necklace
Interior
Home Furnishings\Furniture\Seating\Chair
Weapon\Bow and Arrow
Cased object
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins: Male
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins: Visual Arts\Artist\Sculptor
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins: Visual Arts\Artist\Painter
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins: Visual Arts\Artist\Photographer
Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins: Visual Arts\Art instructor
Frances Eakins: Female
Portrait
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.80.248
Exhibition Label
Widely regarded as nineteenth-century America’s leading realistic painter, Thomas Eakins was about seven years old when this daguerreotype was made. Brought up in a family that encouraged physical fitness, Eakins engaged in various athletic pursuits. This suggests that the bow and arrow he holds were his own rather than props supplied by the daguerreotypist.
Pictured with Eakins is Frances Eakins, the eldest of his three sisters. As a young adult, she would be the subject of one of her brother’s earliest paintings when he returned to Philadelphia in 1870, following a lengthy period of artistic study in Europe.
Thomas Eakins, ampliamente considerado como el pintor realista más destacado de Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX, tenía unos siete años cuando se realizó este daguerrotipo. Criado en el seno de una familia que alentaba el ejercicio físico, Eakins participó de varias actividades deportivas, lo cual sugiere que el arco y la flecha son propios en lugar de atrezos proporcionados por el daguerrotipista.
Junto a Eakins aparece Frances Eakins, la mayor de sus tres hermanas. En sus primeros años de adultez, sería el sujeto de una de las primeras pinturas de su hermano cuando el artista regresó a Filadelfia en 1870, tras un largo periodo de estudio artístico en Europa.
