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Boys playing with crabs / Thomas Pollock Anshutz. – ca 1894.

Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851 – 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Anshutz was born in Newport, Kentucky in 1851. Although he experimented persistently with landscape painting, he was more well known for his portraiture, which won him numerous awards in the 1890s and 1900s. He was Co-founder of The Darby School and leader at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Anshutz was known for his portraiture work and working friendship with Thomas Eakins.