Live Auction 2539Fine American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Including the Collection of Dr. Mark and Irene Kauffman
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Lot 197 SOLD BY THE ORDER OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN TO BENEFIT ITS ACQUISITIONS PROGRAM

Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)

Study for a Portrait of Charles Fussell

Closed1 March 2012

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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916)
Study for a Portrait of Charles Fussell
inscribed by another hand 'original sketch for/Portrait of Charles Fussell/By Thomas Eakins' (upper left)
oil on board
9½ x 7¼ in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm.)
Painted circa 1905.

The artist.
Estate of the above.
Susan Macdowell Eakins, wife of the artist, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Charles Bregler, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Joseph Katz, Baltimore, Maryland.
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1961.
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York, acquired from the above, 1966.
Gift to the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

Charles Fussell (1840-1909) was a Pennsylvania-born landscape painter and childhood friend of Thomas Eakins. Fussell studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with Eakins and returned later as his student.

The present work is a study for a larger, finished painting in the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey.