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Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Nebraska.  Robert Spencer is known for Landscape, genre, figure and coastal painting.

The following is from Brian Peterson, Senior Curator, James A Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He seeks information on the artist from persons who have paintings by the artist and can be contacted at [email protected]:

ROBERT SPENCER: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

Robert Spencer was born in 1879 in Nebraska, the son of a Swedenborgian minister. After studying medicine briefly, he decided to become an artist and moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the National Academy of Design. Later he studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri at the New York School of Art. He moved to New Hope, Bucks County in 1906, and studied privately with the well-known Bucks County painter Daniel Garber. It was at the home of painter William L. Lathrop that Spencer met his future wife, Margaret Fulton, herself an accomplished architect.

For the next 25 years Spencer lived and worked in Bucks County, becoming one of the most prominent members of the Penns   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5961 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Artist artworks for sale and wanted

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Research resources

.  askART lists Robert Spencer in 2 of its research Essays. Robert Spencer has 14 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Robert Spencer available:    Walter Elmer Schofield,  Roy Nuse,  Edward Willis Redfield,  Charles J (Cy) Rosen,  George Sotter,  William Langson Lathrop,  Kenneth Nunamaker,  Daniel Garber,  Henry Bayley Snell,  Rae Bredin,  Mary Elizabeth Price,  John Folinsbee,  Harry Leith-Ross,  Arthur Meltzer,  Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge,  Antonio Martino,  William Francis Taylor,  Edmund Charles Tarbell,  Louis Ritman,  Nancy Maybin Ferguson,  Theodore Robinson,  Frederick Wagner,  Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright,  Francis Augustus Silva