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Mary Lizzie Macomber (August 21, 1861-February 4, 1916) was an American artist who painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style. She exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and her paintings are held in the Smithsonian and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Life and education
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. From about 1880 to 1883, she took painting lessons with Robert S. Dunning, a prominent local still life painter in Fall River. After studying with Dunning she began at the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, but her time there was cut short due to health reasons. After her recovery she studied some time with Frank Duveneck and opened her own studio in Boston.

Artwork
Her early works were fruit and flower paintings in the style of her teacher Robert S. Dunning. 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 1893 two of her works Love Awakening Memory, and The Annunciation were exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition.

Much of her work was lost during a fire in her studio in 1903. She died in 1916, at the age of 54.