Mary Anne Ansley, née Gaudon (fl. 1810–1840)[1] was a British artist known for her depiction of mythological subjects and for her portrait paintings.
Ansley was the daughter of an architect and married a British Army officer, a Colonel Ansley.[2] Between 1814 and 1833 she exhibited some twenty-two works at the Royal Academy.[2] Some twenty-one pieces by her were also shown at the British Institution in London between 1812 and 1823.[3] She was also a regular exhibitor at the Suffolk Street gallery of the Royal Society of British Artists.[4] In 1833 Ansley painted a portrait of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte for which the Prince sat for her in London.[2] [4] For many years a number of her works were held at Houghton Hall in Huntingdonshire with which she had a family connection.[2] Ansley spent some time in Italy and died in Naples in 1840.[3]