Lilly Martin Spencer - Selected Works

Selected Works

• The Little Navigator (1848)
• The Young Teacher (1848)
• Life's Happy Hour (1849)
• Peeling Onions (1852)
• The Young Husband: First marketing (1854)
• Shake Hands (1854)
• Clap Hands (1855)
• This Little Piggy Went to the Market (1857)
• Fi!Fo!Fum! (1858)
• Grandpa's Prodigies (1860)
• War Spirit at Home: Celebrating the Battle at Vicksburg (1866)
• Mother and Child by the Hearth (1867)
• We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian) (1869)
• Old Man with Two Children (1845), Collection: purchased at auction in 1958 by the Ohio Historical Center, Columbus.
• Peeling Onions (1848–1852) Collection: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York; to Closson Galleries, Cincinnati; to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica
• Self-Portrait (ca. 1841), Collections: Mrs. Pierre A. G. Spencer; in 1947 to the Ohio Historical Center, Columbus
• Shepherdess Mending Stockings (1844–1848), Collections: Mrs. William E. Smith, Oxford, Ohio (1953); given by Mrs. Smith in 1870 to the Ohio Historical Center
• Young Women in a Seventeenth-Century Costume (1845), Collection: Mrs. Mary Abrams, Llewellyn Park, New Jersey
• Child Playing with Fish Bowl (1856), Collection: Victor Sparks, New York; to Mrs. George L. Cohen, New York; given by Mrs. Cohen in 1966 to the Newark Museum
• Kiss Me and You’ll Kiss the ‘Lasses (1856), Collections: E. A. Carman, Newark (1857); Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York; in 1970 to the Brooklyn Museum
• Choose Between (ca. 1857), Collections: John Mitchell, New York; to Victor Spark (1946); private owner; Victor Spark, New York
• Peeling Onions (ca. 1852), Collection: Mr. and Mrs. William Postar, Boston
• Reading the Legend (1852), Collections: Vistor Spark, New York (1843); to M. Knoedler &Co.; to Caroline R. and Adeline F. Wing; given by the Misses Wing in 1954 to the Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, Massachusetts