Credit: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Thomas Eakins and Miss Mary Adeline Williams, 1929.
An avid outdoorsman and sportsman, Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted baseball players, rowers, hunters, and boxers. Eakins based this painting on a sketch he made of "Turkey Point" Billy Smith, a journeyman professional fighter he watched box at the Arena Athletic Club on North Broad Street the night of April 22, 1898.
