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==Later period==
==Later period==
[[Image:Artists wife and setter.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Thomas Eakins' ''Lady with her Setter Dog'', (1885). This painting portrays Susan Macdowell, a pupil who became his wife in 1884.]]
In the late 1870s Eakins was teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, concentrating on drawing and painting. In a departure from Victorian norms, he removed the practice of drawing and painting from antique sculptures and replaced them with live nude models. Unfortunately, Eakins could not convince many outside his classroom walls that painting from nudes was innocent in practice, and he was forced to resign from the Academy in 1886.
In the late 1870s Eakins was teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, concentrating on drawing and painting. In a departure from Victorian norms, he removed the practice of drawing and painting from antique sculptures and replaced them with live nude models. Unfortunately, Eakins could not convince many outside his classroom walls that painting from nudes was innocent in practice, and he was forced to resign from the Academy in 1886.