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Benjamin Rush Spencer

1848-1852
pencil on paper
sheet: 19 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (48.9 x 39.1 cm)

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

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Conversation Piece

ca. 1851–52
oil on canvas
28 5/16 x 22 5/8 in. (71.9 x 57.5 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Domestic Happiness

1849
oil on canvas
55 1/4 x 45 3/4 in. (140.3 x 116.2 cm) Framed: 6' x 57 1/4 x 4

Detroit Institute of Arts

Detroit, MI

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King Lear

ca. 1859
oil on canvas
16 x 12 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Kiss Me And You'll Kiss The 'Lasses

1856
oil on canvas
29 15/16 x 24 15/16 in. (76 x 63.3 cm)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Standing amidst a bountiful harvest of fruits in a well-appointed bourgeois interior, the woman pictured here turns from her work to engage an unseen interloper (placed in the position of the viewer) in a playful flirtation. As the title implies, if the interloper tries to kiss her, he will receive a dousing of molasses from the spoon in her hand....
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Listening To Father's Watch

1857
oil on academy board
16 in. x 12 in. (40.64 cm x 30.48 cm)

Currier Museum of Art

Manchester, NH

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Mother And Child By The Hearth

1867
Oil on Canvas
34.5 x 27.5 in. / 87.6 x 69.8 cm.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Peeling Onions

ca. 1852
oil on canvas
36 in. x 29 in. (91.44 cm x 73.66 cm)

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Rochester, NY

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Reading The Legend

1852
oil on canvas
50 3/8 x 38 in.

Smith College Museum of Art

Northampton, MA

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The Artist And Her Family At A Fourth Of July Picnic

ca. 1864
oil on canvas
49 1/2 x 63 in.

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Washington, D.C.

notes
Lilly Martin Spencer's The Artist and Her Family at a Fourth of July Picnic depicts an idyllic scene in which well-dressed, middle-class Americans have gathered to celebrate their country's independence by eating, drinking, and entertaining one another. Sprawled on the ground at the center of the picture is the painter's husband, whose weight has...
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