Lilly Martin Spencer

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 paintingWe Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian),part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection [1970.101].Charles Sullivan, edAmerican Beauties: Women in Art and Literature(New York: Henry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with National Museum of American Art, 1993)