HOME Fourth Floor Studio IMAGES: 1870 - 1874 HOME SCENE AMERICAN SUBJECTS ROWING ON THE RIVER Philadelphia WORLD EVENTS On Independence Day, 1870, Thomas Eakins returns from Europe to his native Philadelphia to begin his adult life as an artist. He starts where he left off three and a half years earlier. At home. Benjamin Eakins creates a studio for Thomas on the fourth floor of their home on 1729 Mount Vernon Street. Thomas Eakins paints the Philadelphia he knows and loves well, indoors and out.

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