Susan Macdowell Eakins Susan Macdowell Eakins Susan Hannah Macdowell Eakins (September 21, 1851 – December 27, 1938) was an American painter and photographer. Her works were first shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where she was a student. She won the Mary Smith Prize there in 1879 and Charles Toppan prize in 1882. One of her teachers was artist Thomas Eakins, who later became her husband. She made portrait and still life paintings. She was also known of her photography. After her husband died in 1916, Eakins became a prolific painter. Her works were exhibited in group exhibitions in her lifetime,
Conservation-restoration of Thomas Eakins' The Gross Clinic completed in 2008 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art's sale of "Cowboy Singing" and two oil sketches of "Cowboys in the Badlands" and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts sale of "The Cello Player," all works by Eakins. The first recorded conservation-restoration treatment to "The Gross Clinic" took place sometime in 1915 by restorer T. H. Stevenson at the behest of Jefferson Medical College. The canvas on which "The Gross Clinic" was painted had become weak and brittle and was lined with a new piece of linen. A 1916 issue of "The Jeffersonian" noted that Stevenson cleaned and treated