![Thomas Eakins - Mending the Net [1881]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3841/15302726331_b3fbef1ba3_o.jpg)
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 colours 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.
[Philadelphia Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 81.6 x 114.6 cm]