{{short description|American painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox artist | name = Mary Lizzie Macomber | image = Mary Lizzie Macomber.jpeg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1861|8|21|mf=y}} | birth_place = Fall River, Massachusetts | death_date = {{death date and age|1916|2|4|1861|8|21|mf=y}} | death_place = Boston, Massachusetts | education = Boston Museum of Fine Arts | field = Painting | training = | movement = Pre-Raphaelite | works = | patrons = | awards = | spouse = | partner = }}
'''Mary Lizzie Macomber''' (August 21, 1861 – February 4, 1916)<ref name="Encyclopedia Britannica">{{cite web |title=Mary Lizzie Macomber - American artist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Lizzie-Macomber |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> was an American artist who painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style.
==Life and work== Macomber was born in Fall River, Massachusetts, the daughter of Frederick William and Mary White Poor Macomber. Her father was a jeweler and her family was of Quaker and Pilgrim descent. As a young woman she took painting lessons with Robert S. Dunning, a prominent still life painter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=American Women Artists|last=Rubinstein|first=Charlotte S.|publisher=G.K Hall & Co|year=1982|location=Boston, MA|pages=116}}</ref> After about three years with Dunning she began studying at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In 1883 she had to discontinue her studies due to illness. After recovering she studied with Frank Duveneck.<ref name=":0" />
Around 1885 Macomber started her own studio in Boston. After initially having painted still lifes she began to concentrate on allegorical works. Her first painting to be exhibited, ''Ruth'', was shown at the National Academy exhibition of 1889. In total for the next 13 years she exhibited more than 25 works at the National Academy.<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Lizzie Macomber|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Lizzie-Macomber|access-date=7 July 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1893 two of her works ''Love Awakening Memory'', and ''The Annunciation'' were exhibited in the Palace of Fine Arts at the World's Columbian Exposition.<ref name="Nichols">{{cite web |last1=Nichols |first1=K. L. |title=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893| url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt6g.html#macomber| access-date=16 August 2018}}</ref> ''St. Catherine'' (1897) won the Dodge prize at the National Academy exhibition in New York.<ref name=":0" /> Some of her best-known works are: ''Love's Lament'' (1893), ''The Hour Glass'' (1900), ''The Lace Jabot'' (1900), ''Night and Her Daughter Sleep'' (1903), and ''Memory Comforting Sorrow'' (1905).<ref name=AskArt>{{cite web|url=http://www.askart.com/askart/m/mary_lizzie_macomber/mary_lizzie_macomber.aspx | title=Mary Lizzie Macomber on Askart.com}}</ref> She also worked as a poet and published a book of her poetry in 1914.
Much of her work was lost during a fire in her studio in 1903.<ref name=":0" /> She died at the Back Bay Hospital in Boston in 1916, at the age of 54.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OmAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA316 | title=American Art Annual, Volume 13 | publisher=MacMillan Company | author=Levy, Florence Nightingale | year=1917 | pages=316}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cuts Brother Off with a Dollar |date=25 February 1916 |page=5 |newspaper=Fall River Daily Evening News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fall-river-daily-evening-news-mary-l-ma/170311655/}}</ref> Her paintings are held in the Smithsonian<ref name="SAAM">{{cite web |title=Mary L. Macomber |url=https://americanart.si.edu/artist/mary-l-macomber-3061 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=30 March 2020}}</ref> and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.<ref name="MFAB">{{cite web |title=Saint Catherine |url=https://collections.mfa.org/objects/31099/saint-catherine?ctx=f5b649e1-35dd-4a4e-af38-19afeb813f71&idx=0 |website=Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |access-date=30 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
== Selected work == <gallery> File:Faith, Hope and Love, Mary Lizzie Macomber.jpg|''Faith, Hope, and Love'' (1894) File:Mary Lizzie Macomber - Saint Catherine - 98.622 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|''Saint Catherine'' (1896) File:Night and Sleep 1902, Mary Macomber.jpg|''Night and Sleep'' (1902) File:Stella Maris - Mary Lizzie Macomber (Worcester Art Mus 1922.198).jpg|''Stella Maris'' (1902–1903) File:Mary Lizzie Macomber - Isabella - 22.645 - Museum of Fine Arts.jpg|''Isabella'' (1908) </gallery>
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