# Talcott Williams

**Thomas Eakins** (American, 1844–1916)  
c. 1889  
Oil on canvas  
Stretcher: 62.5 x 51.8cm (24 5/8 x 20 3/8")

Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.85.50. [The museum's record](https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.85.50).

## About this work

Thomas Eakins painted this in about 1889, aged 45. It is now at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

### What you’re looking at

Artist: Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins, Sitter: Talcott Williams, Current owner: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

_Description from the National Portrait Gallery._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Thomas Eakins](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/thomas-eakins)

American, 1844–1916; born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eakins studied in Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme and was impressed in Spain by Velázquez and Ribera, then returned to Philadelphia, where he spent his life. He painted rowers, boxers and his city’s doctors and scholars with a frank realism grounded in anatomy, perspective and, later, photography. A demanding teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he was forced to resign in 1886 over his use of nude models. Max Schmitt in a Single Scull was the first of his rowing pictures.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- The artist was 45
- Real size: about 25 × 20 in (63 × 52 cm). The 18 × 24 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Subjects: Arts and Culture, Literature, Writers, Newspaper editor, Reporter, Mustaches, Portraits, Facial Hair
- Colour: black
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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