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 AKENS, THOMAS, born in Philadel- phia, Pa., in 1844. Portrait and genre painter ; pupil of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, of J. L. Ger6me, Leon Bonnat, and of A. A, Dumont, sculptor. At present professor of painting at Pennsylva- nia Academy. Studio in Philadelphia. Works in oil : WiUiam Eush carving his Allegorical Eepresentation of the Schuylkill ; Surgical Clinic of Professor Gross in Jeffer- son College, Jefferson Collection ; Portraits of Dr. Brinton and Professor Eand ; Chess- players (1878), Metropolitan Museum, New York ; Professional at Eehearsal, T. B. Clarke, New York ; Pair-Oared SheU (1879) ; May Morning in the Park (1881), Fairman Eogers, Philadelphia ; Mending the Net, Shad Fishing at Gloucester — on the Dela- ware (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, seK-taught. Was at first an itinerant portrait painter ; went with the Governor's Guard to Lexing- ton 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 ar- tist. 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 HI., Eoger 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 Eoyal Academy in 1813 with C. E. 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 Ealph. — Bryan (Graves), 451 ; French, Art in Connecticut (Boston, 1879), 32.

EASTLAKE, Sir CHAELES LOCK, born at Plymouth, Eng., Nov. 17,1793, died in Pisa, Italy, Dec. 24, 1865. History paint- er, pupil in London of Haydon and of Eoyal Academy ; ex- hibited at British In- stitute, in 1813,Christ raising the Daughter of the Euler of the Synagogue. Went

to Paris in following year to copy pictures in Louvre, but the escape of Napoleon from