Mary Roberts (painter)

Mary Roberts
Died1761
NationalityAmerican
Known forPortrait miniaturist
SpouseBishop Roberts
Henrietta Middleton, c. 1752-58, watercolor on ivory, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mary Roberts (died 1761) was an American miniaturist active in Charleston, South Carolina in the 1740s and 1750s. One of the earliest American miniaturists, and the first woman recorded as working in the medium in the American colonies,[1] she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory miniature in the colonies.[2][3]

  1. ^ Saunders, Richard H. and Ellen G. Miles. American Colonial Portraits · 1700-1776. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. p. 163
  2. ^ "Portraits in miniature: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky"
  3. ^ Johnson, Dale T. (1990). American Portrait Miniatures in the Manney Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870995972.