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Thomas Eakins
Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross (The Gross Clinic), oil on canvas by Thomas Eakins, 1875; part of the collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Philadelphia Art Museum. 2 Ă 2.5 m.
Thomas Eakins attended the Ăcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he enrolled in 1866 and studied under the academic painter Jean-LĂ©on GĂ©rĂŽme for more than three years.1