1767/00/00 |
John Singleton Copley |
Painter |
John Singleton Copley paints the portrait of Robert 'King' Hooper, oil on canvas, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Henry S McNeil Fund. |
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1767/00/00 |
Robert Hooper Sr |
Subject |
John Singleton Copley paints the portrait of Robert 'King' Hooper, oil on canvas, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Henry S McNeil Fund. |
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1805/12/26 |
Charles Willson Peale |
Founder |
PAFA is founded by Charles Peale, William Rush and other artists and business leaders who want to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts by exciting the efforts of artists, gradually to unfold, enlighten, and invigorate the talents of our Countrymen. |
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1805/12/26 |
William Rush |
Founder |
PAFA is founded by Charles Peale, William Rush and other artists and business leaders who want to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts by exciting the efforts of artists, gradually to unfold, enlighten, and invigorate the talents of our Countrymen. |
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1862/00/00 |
Thomas Eakins |
Education |
Eakins takes evening drawing class at the Pennsylvania Academy where, after copying antique masters, he is admitted to the nude class to draw live models. He also studies anatomy at the Jefferson Medical College, and considers becoming a surgeon. |
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1871/00/00 |
Fairman Rogers |
Director of the PAFA |
Fairman Rogers heads the competition to design a new building for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Rogers's sister, Helen Kate, is married to Horace H Furness, brother of the winning architect, Frank Furness. |
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1871/00/00 |
Furness and Hewitt |
Architect |
Furness and Hewitt win the competition to design the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts building. Rogers's sister, Helen Kate, is married to Horace H Furness, brother of the winning architect, Frank Furness. |
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1876/04/22 |
Frank Furness |
Architect |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts new building opens. Designed by the firm of Frank Furness and George Hewitt, the edifice is generally considered to be primarily the work of Furness, who finished the project after the partnership dissolved in 1875. |
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1876/05/00 |
Thomas Eakins |
Work |
Thomas Eakins returns to the Pennsylvania Academy to teach as a volunteer. |
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1878/00/00 |
Thomas Eakins |
Work |
Thomas Eakins becomes a salaried professor at the Pennsylvania Academy. |
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1882/00/00 |
Thomas Eakins |
Work |
Thomas Eakins is made the director of the Pennsylvania Academy. |
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1884/00/00 |
Charles Grafly |
Education |
Charles Grafly studys art under painters Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts between 1884-1888. |
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1886/00/00 |
Thomas Eakins |
Life |
Eakins causes a scandal by lifting the loincloth of a male model in front of female students. After he is forced to resign from the PAFA, he will establish the Art Students' League of Philadelphia but will eventually quit teaching. |
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1892/00/00 |
Charles Grafly |
Work |
Charles Grafly returns to Philadelphia where he becomes an instructor of modeling at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. |
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1896/00/00 |
William Merritt Chase |
Work |
William M Chase begins teaching at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, staying until 1909. |
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1905/00/00 |
Alice Kent Stoddard |
Education |
Alice Kent studies art under Thomas Eakins, Thomas Anshutz and William Merritt Chase at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she won three Cresson Traveling Scholarships in 1905, 1906, and 1907. |
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1911/00/00 |
William Rush |
Sculptor |
Never exhibited during Rush's lifetime, William Rush's great-grandson presents the bust of "Marquis de Lafayette" to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. |
Marquis de Lafayette (Rush) |
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