Artist. Born in Newark, Ohio, he studied art in Licking County, Ohio and then in Indianapolis in 1846. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1850 to operate his own art studio. He studied with his contempories, James Henry Beard, T. Buchanan Read, and Thomas W. Whittredge in Cincinnati. Eaton painted portraits, genre, landscape, and historical scenes. He worked as a photographer in Cincinnati in the 1860's during the Civil War. Eaton also studied briefly in New Orleans before eventually finding success as a painter of children's portraits in New York City. Two of his oil portraits, "Judge Timothy Walker" and "Captain Jacob Strader", are on permanent display at the University Galleries on Sycamore in Cincinnati. He died in Yonkers, New York in 1875 the day before he would have been 46 years old.
Artist. Born in Newark, Ohio, he studied art in Licking County, Ohio and then in Indianapolis in 1846. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1850 to operate his own art studio. He studied with his contempories, James Henry Beard, T. Buchanan Read, and Thomas W. Whittredge in Cincinnati. Eaton painted portraits, genre, landscape, and historical scenes. He worked as a photographer in Cincinnati in the 1860's during the Civil War. Eaton also studied briefly in New Orleans before eventually finding success as a painter of children's portraits in New York City. Two of his oil portraits, "Judge Timothy Walker" and "Captain Jacob Strader", are on permanent display at the University Galleries on Sycamore in Cincinnati. He died in Yonkers, New York in 1875 the day before he would have been 46 years old.
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