Mary Lemon Waller

Mary Lemon Waller
Born	Mary Lemon Fowler 1851 Bideford, Devon
Died	1931
Nationality	British
Education	Royal Academy Schools
Known for	Portrait Paintings
Spouse(s)	Samuel Edmund Waller

Mary Lemon Waller (born Mary Lemon Fowler) was a British portrait painter, who specialized in children's' portraits.

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. 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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