Talk:Portrait of Mary Adeline Williams

Original research
Is this: as far as I've seen none of the biographers have mentioned the change in vantage point. In the first painting Eakins is looking down slightly on Addie, in the second looking slightly up. Painters know that this change of perspective has an implicit emotional and psychological effect on the image, and it's just what you'd expect: the first tending to diminish the persona, the latter rendering her more glorified or dominant. Also, the composition of the second image follows to the letter the template of Eakins' earlier portrait of Maud Cook, with the differences explained by age and personality. JNW (talk) 00:45, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, I've reverted the template which brought the two images together ; I find the images are more organically integrated into the text without the template. It's not my intention to take ownership of the article, and no offense is intended--further comment welcome. JNW (talk) 02:43, 23 September 2010 (UTC)