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Eakins started his art training in the Pennsylvania Academy in his hometown of Philadelphia. When he found that he would have to study anatomy from plaster casts, he started visiting the medical school across the street,

When he was 22 he moved to Paris to study. He became ill and went to Spain to recover. He was greatly influenced by Spanish painters.

His first "famous" painting was The Gross Clinic.

Most of his famous portraits were of friends and others doing whatever was typical in their lives (teachers lecturing, singers singing).  Max Schmitt in a Single Scull features a well-known rower of the day.  (Eakins added himself in the background.)  He preferred older faces and even added wrinkles and lines. (Many would not accept or destroyed their portraits.)

Eakins started teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy first as a volunteer and then as a paid professor (1879). He threw out the plaster casts and started using live models. ("An imitation of an imitation. . ." He also encouraged students to begin immediately with color instead of going through preliminary drawings, He became director in 1882 but was fired for using a nude male model in a class of young ladies.

If you were the patient in The Gross Clinic you would be Eakin, too.