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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Study for a Portrait of Charles Fussell

Details

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for a Portrait of Charles Fussell
inscribed by another hand 'original sketch for/Portrait of Charles Fussell/By Thomas Eakins' (upper left)
oil on board
9½ x 7¼ in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1905.

Provenance

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Susan Macdowell Eakins, wife of the artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Charles Bregler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1961.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1966.
Gift to the present owner from the above.

Literature

G. Hendricks, The Life and Work of Thomas Eakins, New York, 1974, p. 324, no. 98, illustrated.
P.D. Rosenzweig, The Thomas Eakins Collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1977, pp. 204-05, no. 111, illustrated.

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition, 1844-1944, April 8-May 14, 1944, no. 108a.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., and elsewhere, A Loan Exhibition of the Works of Thomas Eakins, 1844-1944, June 5-July 31, 1944, no. 77.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Thomas Eakins Centennial Exhibition, 1844-1944, April 26-June 1, 1945, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

Charles Fussell (1840-1909) was a Pennsylvania-born landscape painter and childhood friend of Thomas Eakins. Fussell studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Eakins and returned later as his student.

The present work is a study for a larger, finished painting in the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey.

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