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Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822-1902) A Rare Portrait God Bless My Father.
**Figure 84 from principal book/catalogue on Lilly Martin Spencer.
19th Century.
Oil on canvas, signed
Lilly Martin Spencer was one of the most popular and American female genre painters in the mid-nineteenth century. She primarily painted domestic scenes, paintings of women and children in a warm happy atmosphere, although over the course of her career she would also come to paint works of varying style and subject matter, including the portraits of famous individuals such as suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Although she did have an audience for her work, Spencer had difficulties earning a living as a professional painter and faced financial trouble for much of her adult life.
Her works are in prominent museums in America including: National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Currier Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many more.
This is an extremely rare and important painting by the greatest female artist of her time.
Canvas size:48" x 36"
Frame size: 51" x 39"
Very good condition. No damages noted. Ready to hang.
Provenance: Alexander Gallery, New York
Exhibitions of the artist:
St. Luke's Episcopal Church (Marietta, Ohio), Rectory. 1841
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Life in America: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings, April 24-October 29, 1939.
Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) American Processional: The Story of Our Country, July 8-December 17, 1950
Currier Art Gallery of Art (Manchester, N.H.) 19th Century American Painting from the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller, September 18-October 17, 1971
Walter Art Gallery (Baltimore). Old Mistresses: Women Artists of the Past, April 17- June 18, 1972
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) Kiss Me and You'll Kiss the 'Lasses
National Academy of Design
Women's Pavilion of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876
- Creator:Lilly Martin Spencer (1822 - 1902)
- Dimensions:Height: 51 in (129.54 cm)Width: 39 in (99.06 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Queens, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU115129831382
Lilly Martin Spencer
Lilly Martin Spencer was a professional artist for over 60 years, painting portraits, still lifes, miniatures and genre scenes. In the 1850s to mid-1860s her genre scenes depicting domestic topics were engraved for wide distribution, spreading her name and fame, and putting her forward as an American claimant to the rich tradition of European genre, especially the Dutch and English schools whose prints graced parlor walls all over the North American continent. Spencer’s genre scenes remain her best remembered work to this day. Generally sunny, bordering sentimental, they conjure the popular image of antebellum American life, the nostalgic mythology of the last decades of a cultural optimism and innocence that ended (if it ever existed) with the Civil War. Spencer’s own story, however, is considerably more nuanced than this snapshot of her career. She was a skilled portraitist, but it is perhaps her still-life work which is most intriguing. It played an important role as a pictorial element in her most famous genre scenes, but until recently, few examples of her dedicated still life subjects have come to light.
(Biography provided by Hirschl Adler)
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