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found by searching the catalogues of the American Art Union, the Western Art Union and the Brooklyn Art Association. In fact it is a fairly safe estimate that Mrs. Spencer painted more than five hundred sentimental pictures and portraits during her career.
An indication of her popularity, as an artist, is the large accumulation of press clippings that have come to light from various sources. We now know that the artist, from the beginning of her career in Marietta, Ohio, was favored by the press. The story of her early start in painting is told, with minor variations, in several early articles found in The Marietta Intelligencer, from 1839 through 1841. To piece together the story, we find that the artist was born in England of

[[Illustration of woman holding child]]
-The Old Print Shop

Illustration III.
This Little Pig Went to Market
The original painting by Mrs. Spencer, signed and dated 1857, depicts sentimental version of the mother and child subject. The original frame shows how ornately her paintings were at times framed. A print of this painting was made by the Cosmopolitan Art Union and distributed in 1860 to its subscribers. 

French parents in 1824 (although November 24, 1822, is given as her birth date on her tombstone). She was named Angelique, after her mother, and her family name was Martin. Giles Martin, her father, has earned a living teaching French at Exeter, England. About 1830 the Martin family came to New York and three years later had settled on a farm outside of Marietta, Ohio. There were four children in the family and the farm income not being enough, Mr. Martin taught French at the Collegiate Institute in Marietta. The Martins

AUGUST, 1944 

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[[Illustration of dog]]
-The Old Print Shop

Illustratuon IV.
Dignity and Impudence
This painting, with dogs as the central theme, was painted by Mrs. Spencer in 1855. It is of course a variation on same subject painted by Landseer, the English artist. No contemporary print is known of this picture by Mrs. Martin.

[[illustration of man and women and dog in front of ruins]]
-Victor D. Spark.

Illustration V.
Reading
In this painting Mrs. Spencer turned from the sentimental to the romantic. It depicts Victorian couple, the man possibly reading one of his own sonnets to his companion,
posed before a distinctly imaginative European background
complete with a ruined castle. 
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