Mary Green (painter)

Lady Alice Jane Peel by James Thomson, after Mary Green (née Byrne), 1833^[1]

Mary Green (1766 - 1845) was a British painter who exhibited at the Royal Academy at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Life

Mary Byrne was born in 1766.^[1] She was the second daughter of William Byrne. Her brother, John Byrne, was also an artist. Her father engraved landscapes and Mary became a miniature painter after studying with Arlaud. Her work was accepted for exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1795 and she continued to exhibit there until 1835.^[2] She was exhibiting up to 1845 including at the British Institution and the Society of British Artists. She married the painter James Green on 13 February 1805 in Marylebone^[3] and their children included the notable painter Benjamin Richard Green. Mary Green died on the 22 October 1845 and she was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.^[2]

Legacy

Some of Green's corrrespondence is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and a portrait by her of Queen Adelaide is in the Royal Collection.^[3]

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