Dr. Thomas H. Fenton

Datec. 1905

Artist Thomas Eakins (American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844–1916)

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions58 3/4 × 29 in. (149.2 × 73.7 cm)
frame: 66 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. (168.9 × 92.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Friends of Art and other donors, 1963

Object number1963-13

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsPAINTING

Label TextDr. Thomas H. Fenton (1856–1929) was a prominent ophthalmologist and art patron in Philadelphia. His daughter, sculptor Beatrice Fenton, recalled that the portrait was never finished because Fenton was too busy to continue the many sittings that Eakins' painstaking method required. While Eakins nearly completed the rendering of Fenton's head, his figure and the background remain unfinished.