page_title: Frank B. A. Linton
section_title: Personal
hierarchical_section_title: Frank B. A. Linton / Biography / Personal
caption_attribution_description: Paintings by Thomas Eakins
context_page_description: Frank Benton Ashley Linton was an American portrait-painter and teacher. He was a student of Thomas Eakins, studied the École des Beaux-Arts, and won a bronze medal at the 1927 Salon Nationale in Paris. Likely a closeted gay man, he lived with pianist Samuel Meyers for more than thirty years.
context_section_description: Linton's life partner was the German-American classical pianist Samuel Meyers (1854–1933). They shared a house and studio at 1707 Chestnut Street from 1901 to 1924. Eakins was a frequent guest at their Saturday afternoon musicales, and painted portraits of both men. (The portraits are at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.) It is likely that it was at one of the musicales that Eakins met the Philadelphia Orchestra violinist Hedda van den Beemt. Music (1904), Eakins's portrait of van den Beemt, features Meyers in the background as the pianist.
  Linton hosted a March 1924 art exhibition at his Chestnut Street studio featuring paintings by fellow Eakins students Charles Bregler, David Wilson Jordan and Susan Macdowell Eakins (Eakins's widow), along with his own works.
  Linton and Meyers moved to a house and studio at 2037 Delancey Street by 1925. Meyers died in July 1933. Linton continued living there through a long illness, until his death in 1943.
caption: Portrait of Samuel Meyers (1904) by Thomas Eakins
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