3619118 Mending the Net, 1881 (oil on canvas) by Eakins, Thomas Cowperthwait (1844-1916); 81.6x114.6 cm; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, PA, USA; (add.info.: Over the landscape he had painted on his canvas, Eakins projected his selected photographic studies, one-by-one, to mark the positions and salient details of each figure or element of the composition. Oil sketches made on-site served as notes to indicate the original colors of every component. Toning glazes consolidated the whole into a thoroughly convincing scene of the awakening respect two children experienced before the quiet devotion of fishermen practicing their craft.); by Philadelphia Museum of Art ; Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929; American, out of copyright.