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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.

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