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Mary Lemon Waller
Mary Lemon Waller, self portrait.jpg
Born
Mary Lemon Fowler

1851 (1851)
Bideford, Devon, England
Died 1931 (aged 79–80)
Nationality British
Education Royal Academy Schools
Known for Portrait Paintings
Spouse(s) Samuel Edmund Waller

Mary Lemon Waller (born Mary Lemon Fowler) (1851–1931) was a British portrait painter, who specialised in child portraits.

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Mary Lemon Waller – Spring Voices

Biography

Mary Lemon was born to Rev. Hugh Fowler of Burnwood, Gloucestershire. She began her education in art at an Art School in Gloucester, and later studied at the Royal Academy schools. Waller began exhibiting paintings as early as age 20, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1877–1904. She married genre painter Samuel Edmund Waller in 1874; the couple lived in London and had one son. Waller exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. In 1925, Waller became a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.

Waller's works can be seen at several venues in the United Kingdom: Cragside, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and Somerville College, Oxford.

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Mary Lemon Waller – Portrait of Henry Clifton Sorby

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