This passage is by John Russell: “There never was a painter like Thomas Eakins, who was born in 1844, died in 1916

This passage is by John Russell:

“There never was a painter like Thomas Eakins, who was born in 1844, died in 1916…. It is not simply that in his hands painting became an exact science, so that if he paints two men rowing on a river, we can tell the month, day, and the hour that they passed under a certain bridge. We admire Eakins for that, BUT we prize him above all for the new dimension of moral awareness that he brought to American painting.”