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[[Image:Eakins.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Thomas Eakins (''Self Portrait'', 1902)]]

[[Image:Eakins.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Thomas Eakins (''Self Portrait'', 1902)]]

'''Thomas Eakins''' (1844-1916) was an American painter who concentrated in the subject of [[Realism |realism]], and the first great painter in the period after the [[American Civil War]].  His masterpiece, ''The Gross Clinic'', had recently sold for a staggering $68,000,000, the highest price paid for an American portrait, despite being critically rejected by his contemporaries during the time it was created.

'''Thomas Eakins''' (1844-1916) was an American painter who concentrated in the subject of [[Realism |realism]], and the first great painter in the period after the [[American Civil War]].  His masterpiece, ''The Gross Clinic'', was recently sold for a staggering $68,000,000, the highest price paid for an American portrait, despite being critically rejected by his contemporaries during the time it was created.

==Early life==

==Early life==

[[Image:Writing master.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Eakins portrayed his father, Benjamin, in ''The Writing Master'' (1882)]]  

[[Image:Writing master.jpg|thumb|150px|left|Eakins portrayed his father, Benjamin, in ''The Writing Master'' (1882)]]