Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861-1916, Massachusetts) The Messenger. Circa 1902. Oil on canvas portrait of a figure in profile. Signed and dated lower right and on the verso. In the original carved and gilded frame. Sight size 12″ high by 9″ wide. Overall 17″ high by 15 1/4″ wide. Shows some craquelure and some loss to gilt on frame. Mary Lizzie Macomber was a Pre-Raphaelite painter born in Fall River, Massachusetts. She was a student of Robert Spear Dunning before studying further at the school of Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Much of Macomber’s work was lost in a fire in her studio in 1903. Provenance: Vose Galleries Boston, Massachusetts.
Mary Lizzie Macomber (1861-1916) The Messenger Circa 1902 Oil on canvas portrait in original frame.
