Artist
Lilly Martin Spencer
born Exeter, England 1822-died New York City 1902
- Also known as
- Lillie Martin Spencer
- Angelique Marie Martin
- Lilly Martin
- Lily Martin Spencer
- Lilli Martin Spencer
- Born
- Exeter, England
- Active in
- Highland, New York, United States
- Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Marietta, Ohio, United States
- Biography
Born in England, brought to Ohio in 1833, later moved to New York City. Her charming, sometimes sentimental paintings of domestic scenes were expertly done and quite popular among her contemporaries, but her reputation faded like the rose in her 1869 painting We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian), part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection [1970.101].
Charles Sullivan, ed American Beauties: Women in Art and Literature (New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)
Works by this artist (1 item)
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