Eakins similarly painted intimate oil portraits of individuals with direct, unflinching gazes and a strong sense of psychological immediacy. His subjects often appear in casual or working dress, rejecting the formal conventions of academic portraiture in favor of honest, close observation.

Beaux created oil portraits at a similar scale and period that emphasized the personality and presence of her subjects through informal compositions and direct engagement with the viewer. Her work shares the same sense of spontaneity and departure from stiff academic convention.

Sargent's smaller informal portrait studies in oil share a comparable sense of immediacy and looseness that distinguishes them from rigid academic portraiture. His casual subject poses and confident brushwork create the same feeling of a real, present individual captured naturally.