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Lisa Duffy-Zeballos, PhD

Arch Facial Plast Surg. 2008;10(2):148-149.

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Lilly Martin Spencer was born Angelique Marie Martin, the daughter of French parents, in Exeter, England, in 1822. The family immigrated to the United States in 1830 and eventually settled in the small town of Marietta, Ohio. Her politically progressive parents were active supporters of women's suffrage and encouraged their daughter to pursue an artistic career. With their help, the young artist held her own exhibition of paintings in 1841 in her local church. The exhibition attracted the notice of the wealthy art patron Nicolas Longworth, who offered to finance her trip to Europe to complete her artistic education, an offer she refused. Some have speculated that her decision to remain in Ohio was informed by the prevailing patriotic distrust of the corruptive effects of foreign influences on the purity of the American artistic vision.^1(p17) She remained in Cincinnati, where she married a fellow English émigré, Benjamin . . . [Full Text of this Article]