Thomas Eakins was a Realism artist born on July 25, 1844 in Pennsylvania, US. Eakins was said to to be the most powerful figure and portrait painter of time in America. Thomas Eakins was a leading naturalist and one of the era's strongest painters of the current scene. Eakins died on June 25, 1916 in Pennsylvania, US. A work of Thomas Eakins includes The Gross Clinic.

Thomas Eakins

Realism Arist

The Gross Clinic

The Gross Clinic is considered realism because it represents what actually happens, what is real.