Ellen Maria Carpenter ( – ) was an American landscape and portrait painter. Ellen Maria Carpenter was born on in

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. She was educated at Milford High School and studied art under Thomas Edwards and

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. She later studied under

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in Europe. She painted numerous landscapes and was noted for her depictions of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. She travelled extensively and painted scenes from California, Algeria, Egypt, Italy, and Spain. Walter Shaw Sparrow wrote that her "landscape art reveals at times the menacing suggestion of great rivers and of high solitary mountains." Ellen Maria Carpenter died on July 1, 1908, in

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