Left: William Sidney Mount, The Banjo Player, 1856, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches (The Museums at Stoney Brook); right: Thomas Eakins, Study for “Negro Boy Dancing”: The Banjo Player, probably 1877, oil on canvas on cardboard, 49.5 x 27.9 cm (The National Gallery of Art)

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Left: William Sidney Mount, The Banjo Player, 1856, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches (The Museums at Stoney Brook); right: Thomas Eakins, Study for "Negro Boy Dancing": The Banjo Player, probably 1877, oil on canvas on cardboard, 49.5 x 27.9 cm (The National Gallery of Art)

Cite this page as: Beth Harris, "Left: William Sidney Mount, The Banjo Player, 1856, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 inches (The Museums at Stoney Brook); right: Thomas Eakins, Study for “Negro Boy Dancing”: The Banjo Player, probably 1877, oil on canvas on cardboard, 49.5 x 27.9 cm (The National Gallery of Art)," in Smarthistory, September 9, 2016, accessed April 26, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/tanner-banjo/a15504-jpg/.