CYCLOPEDIA
OF
Painters and Paintings.
EAKINS, THOMAS, born in Philadelphia,
Pa., in 1844. Portrait and
genre painter; pupil of Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts, of J. L. Gérôme, Léon
Bonnat, and of A. A. Dumont, sculptor. At
present professor of painting at Pennsylvania
Academy. Studio in Philadelphia.
Works in oil: William Rush carving his
Allegorical Representation of the Schuylkill;
Surgical Clinic of Professor Gross in Jefferson
College, Jefferson Collection; Portraits
of Dr. Brinton and Professor Rand; Chess-Players
(1878), Metropolitan Museum, New
York; Professional at Rehearsal, T. B.
Clarke, New York; Pair-Oared Shell (1879);
May Morning in the Park (1881), Fairman
Rogers, Philadelphia; Mending the Net,
Shad Fishing at Gloucester—on the Delaware
(1882); Singing Girl (1883). Water-*colours:
Whistling for Plover, Base-Ball
(1876).
EARL, RALPH, born at Lebanon, Conn.,
about 1751, died at Bolton, Conn., in 1801.
History and portrait painter, self-taught.
Was at first an itinerant portrait painter;
went with the Governor's Guard to Lexington
and Cambridge, and painted from
sketches made at the time four scenes of
the battle of Lexington, engraved by Amos
Doolittle, which are believed to be the first
historical compositions by an American artist.
Went to London after the war and
studied under Benjamin West, but returned
to America in 1786. Among his works are
a large picture of the Falls of Niagara, and
portraits of George III., Roger Sherman,
Judge Ellsworth, Colonel George Willis,
Dr. Dwight of Yale College, and Governor
Strong. His son, Augustus Earle, history
and marine painter, fellow-student at Royal
Academy in 1813 with C. R. Leslie and S.
F. B. Morse, was known from his roving
disposition as the "wandering artist." James
Earle, portrait painter (died in Charleston,
S. C., in 1796), was perhaps a brother of
Ralph.—Bryan (Graves), 451; French, Art
in Connecticut (Boston, 1879), 32.
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EASTLAKE, Sir CHARLES LOCK, born
at Plymouth, Eng.,
Nov. 17, 1793, died in
Pisa, Italy, Dec. 24,
1865. History painter,
pupil in London
of Haydon and of
Royal Academy; exhibited
at British Institute,
in 1813, Christ
raising the Daughter
of the Ruler of the
Synagogue. Went
to Paris in following year to copy pictures
in Louvre, but the escape of Napoleon from
