| Mariquita Jenny Moberly | |
| Honorific Suffix: | RI BWS NSA |
| Birth Name: | Mariquita Jenny Phillips |
| Birth Date: | 2 November 1855 |
| Birth Place: | Deptford, London, England |
| Death Place: | Mitcham, Surrey, England |
| Spouse: | Herbert Guy Moberly[1] |
| Field: | Painting |
Mariquita Jenny Moberly, née Phillips, (2 November 1855 – 1 November 1937) was an English artist, working in oil paints and watercolours.[2] [3]
Moberly was born on 2 November 1855[4] to John Phillips and Jane Atkins Phillips at Deptford in London.[5] Her name, mariquita, (literally, "Little Mary") means ladybird in Spanish.[6]
Moberly studied in Germany and under Carolus-Duran in Paris.[7] [8] She painted portraits, figure studies, animals and landscapes in oils, watercolours and pastels.[7] [8] Moberly exhibited at the Royal Academy in London, with the New Watercolour Society and at both the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.[7] She lived in Epsom, and later Mitcham.
In March 2013, a number of her watercolour 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 Ernest Shackleton, 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.[9]
She died in Mitcham, Surrey, on 1 November 1937, one day before her 82nd birthday.[10]