Susan Macdowell met Thomas Eakins in1876, shortly before she enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. A talented artist, she won several prizes in the academy's annual exhibitions, and displayed her work in the 1879 and 1880 with the Philadelphia Society of Artists.
After Macdowell married Eakins in 1884, she largely put aside her artistic ambitions, although she did take up photography. She returned to painting after her husband's death, and this intimate portrait, believed to have been based on a photograph, is one of her best works.
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