Mary Dawson Turner, before her marriage Mary Palgrave (1774–1850),[1] was an English artist. She is known for her series of portraits, making etchings from drawings collected by her husband.[2]
She was the daughter of William Palgrave, one of 12 children; her sister Anne married Edward Rigby. She married Dawson Turner, and they had 11 children, of whom eight survived to adulthood.[1] [3]
She etched a series of 50 illustrations by John Sell Cotman for her husband's Account of a Tour in Normandy (1820). She also made collections of etched portraits. One set of 50 etchings, published in 1823, was followed by a set of 100 portraits of "distinguished individuals", published at Great Yarmouth. There was a larger collection including also buildings and landscape subjects.[4]