Biografie von Frederick R. SPENCER (1806-1875)

Birth place: Lennox, NY

Death place: Wampoville, NY

Addresses: NYC, c.1831-57

Profession: Portrait & genre painter

Studied: self-taught

Exhibited: NAD

Member: Am. Acad. (1833-35; board directors); ANA (1837-46); NA (1849-50; corresp. secy.)

Comments: In 1858 he retired to Canistota in upstate New York.

Sources: G&W; Dunlap, History, II, 436; CAB; Cowdrey, NAD; Cowdrey, AA & AAU; NYCD 1831-56; NYBD 1841-57; Swan, BA; Stauffer, nos. 605, 2397; Clement and Hutton