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Mariquita Jenny Moberly , ''née'' Phillips, (2 November 1855 – 1 November 1937) was an English artist, working in oil paints and watercolours.

Biography

Moberly was born on 2 November 1855 ''London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906'' to John Phillips and Jane Atkins Phillips at Deptford in London. Her name, ''mariquita'', (literally, "Little Mary") means ladybird in Spanish. Moberly studied in Germany and under

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in Paris. She painted portraits, figure studies, animals and landscapes in oils, watercolours and pastels. Moberly exhibited at the

Royal Academy The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its pur ...

in London, with the

New Watercolour Society The Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI), initially called the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, is one of the societies in the Federation of British Artists, based in the Mall Galleries in London. History In 1831 the so ...

and at both the

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and the

Royal West of England Academy The Royal West of England Academy (RWA) is Bristol's oldest art gallery, located in Clifton, Bristol, near the junction of Queens Road and Whiteladies Road. Situated in a Grade 2* listed building, it hosts five galleries and an exhibition program ...

in Bristol. She lived in Epsom, and later Mitcham. In March 2013, a number of her

watercolour Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to t ...

paintings, in private possession, of a variety of subjects, were shown in the BBC television programme '' Antiques Roadshow''. These included a 1918 self-portrait and a picture of a dog that reputedly belonged to

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, along with photographs of her paintings of dogs known to be his. Her works are in a number of public collections, including ''The Secret Path'' in the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum. She died in

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, on 1 November 1937, one day before her 82nd birthday.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Moberly, Mariquita Jenny 1855 births 1937 deaths 19th-century English women artists 20th-century English women artists 19th-century English painters 20th-century English painters English watercolourists English women painters Ernest Shackleton Painters from London People from Epsom People from Mitcham People from Deptford