Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
Eakins' 1902 Self portrait, now housed at the National Academy of Design in New York City
A young Thomas Eakins at age six
Thomas Eakins House at 1729 Mount Vernon Street, Philadelphia. Benjamin Eakins, his father, added the 4th floor in 1874 as a studio for his son.
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull (1871), now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Visual art of the United States
Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists. Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of Native American art, and where the Spanish colonized Spanish Colonial architecture and the accompanying styles in other media were quickly in place. Early colonial art on the East Coast initially relied on artists from Europe, with John White the earliest example. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted portraits, and some landscapes in a style based mainly on English painting. Furniture-makers imitating English styles and similar craftsmen were also established in the major cities, but in the English colonies, locally made pottery remained resolutely utilitarian until the 19th century, with fancy products imported.
Gilbert Stuart, George Washington, also known as The Athenaeum and The Unfinished Portrait, 1796, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is his most celebrated and famous work.
John White, Roanoke Indians, 1585, watercolor, British Museum
John Trumbull, The Declaration of Independence (event 1776, painted 1819), United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, (original version), 1778, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.