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Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand is an 1874 painting by Thomas Eakins. It is oil on canvas and depicts Benjamin H. Rand a doctor at Jefferson Medical College who taught Eakins anatomy. In the painting Rand is reading a book while petting a cat.The portrait was the first Eakins made of someone outside his family. It is a prelude to what his considered his most important painting The Gross Clinic (1875).
