This painting includes a partial self-portrait of the artist on the far right side, in which he is writing intently while looking over a railing towards the central scene. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this painting whose foreground and background figures all wear black, in contrast to the white coats of a later painting of a similar subject by the same artist named for David Hayes Agnew.
ANSWER: The Gross Clinic
[10e] This Philadelphia-based artist depicted himself studiously taking notes in The Gross Clinic.
ANSWER: Thomas Eakins [or Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins]
[10h] In the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Gross Clinic hangs next to a painting of The Annunciation modeled on a young Palestinian girl by this artist, a student of Eakins. This artist painted a prayer before a meal in The Thankful Poor.
ANSWER: Henry Ossawa Tanner
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