The keeper of Eakins' flame.(Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins)(Book review)

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Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins

William S. McFeely

W.W. Norton. 237 pages, $26.95

A PAINTER and photographer who's acclaimed by some critics as the best portrait artist in American history, Thomas Eakins is today a very hot property. His 1875 painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts Dr. Samuel Gross performing surgery, is still in the news. Purchased by Thomas Jefferson University in 1878 for $200, the Philadelphia Museum of Art has recently fended off a bid for the painting rumored to be $68 million. Once considered too gory for general display, illustrating as ...

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