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Mary Roberts (painter)
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,〔Saunders, Richard H. and Ellen G. Miles. ''American Colonial Portraits · 1700-1776''. Washington, D.C.; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. p. 163〕 she is also believed to have painted the first watercolor-on-ivory miniature in the colonies.〔("Portraits in miniature: Anna Claypoole Peale and Caroline Schetky" )〕
==Life==
Almost nothing is known about Roberts' life; what little may be gleaned about her comes from advertisements run in the ''South Carolina Gazette'' and from the wills of her contemporaries. She was the wife of painter Bishop Roberts, who first advertised his services in the ''Gazette'' in 1735, and again two years later. He claimed to be able to paint portraits, landscapes, and heraldry; to offer drawings for sale; to paint houses; and to print engravings as well. He is best remembered for a view of Charleston which was engraved by W. H. Toms in 1739.〔 Roberts died unexpectedly in 1740, in which year his wife's name appeared in newspaper notices for the first time. She provided a statement to the ''Gazette'' on her husband's death, further offering to provide "Face Painting well performed by the said Mary Roberts, who has several Pictures and a Printing-Press to dispose of"; no further written evidence exists to show that she worked as a miniaturist.〔 In 1746 she again offered the printing press for sale. That she was continually suffering financial difficulties after her husband's death may be inferred from the will of one William Watkins, who on his death in 1747 left her fifty pounds for the support of her son. Upon the death of a friend in 1750 she received a bequest of clothing and furniture. Roberts herself died in 1761, and her burial is recorded in the register of St. Philip's Episcopal Church on October 24 of that year.〔
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