Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 8

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
THOMAS EAKINS, attributed to (1844-1916)
Portrait of Walt Whitman, Camden. Albumen print, the image measuring 3 3/4x4 1/2 inches (9.5x11.4 cm.), with the numeric notation 20, in pencil, on verso. 1887
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This rare study of Whitman (1819-1892) is believed to be by Thomas Eakins, who painted his portrait that same year. The painting is in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia. An oil sketch of the poet, also by Eakins, is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Whitman, Specimen Days, pl. 172.