John Martin Tracy (1844-1893)
English Setter
signed "J.M. Tracy" lower right
oil on board, 5 by 9 in.

John Martin Tracy was born in Rochester, Ohio. His father was an abolitionist preacher who was killed in an anti-slavery demonstration. His mother, Maria Conant Tracy, was a journalist who covered the Crystal Palace Explosion in London. Tracy attended Oberlin College and Northwestern University. He enlisted in the 19th Illinois Infantry in 1861. After the Civil War, he husbanded his resources from teaching and farming to attend the Ecole de Beaux Arts in Paris. He studied there for a year, after which he traveled extensively throughout the United States. He returned to Paris in 1874 for further study and exhibited at the Paris Salon that year. In 1881 he settled in Greenwich, Connecticut, where his paintings were esteemed for being exceptionally accurate.

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