Mariquita Jenny Moberly
{{short description|English artist, working in oil and watercolour}}
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| birth_name = Mariquita Jenny Phillips
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|11|2|df=y}}
| birth_place = Deptford, London, England
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1937|11|1|1855|11|2|df=y}}
| death_place = Mitcham, Surrey, England
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| spouse = Herbert Guy Moberly{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=jL9w6j2U3OJkFrhCSfsMvw&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=May 14, 2013|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}
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File:Mariquita Jenny Moberly - The Duet.jpg
File:Mariquita Jenny Moberly - Fisherman Repairing Nets.jpg
Mariquita Jenny Moberly {{post-nominals|country=GBR|RI|BWS|NSA}}, née Phillips, (2 November 1855 – 1 November 1937) was an English artist, working in oil paints and watercolours.{{cite web|url=http://www.leightonfineart.co.uk/art-and-antiques/detail/57813|title=Best Friends|publisher=Leighton Fine Art|accessdate=13 May 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200836/http://www.leightonfineart.co.uk/art-and-antiques/detail/57813|archive-date=29 October 2013}}{{Cite episode | title = Chatham Historic Dockyard | series = Antiques Roadshow | series-link = Antiques Roadshow | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00zjmyj | accessdate = 2013-03-24 | network = BBC | date = 2013-03-24 | series-no = 35 | number = 16 }}
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.{{cite book|last=Wright|first=Christopher|title=British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland|year=2006|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0300117302|page=569|author2=Catherine May Gordon |author3=Mary Peskett Smith }} Her name, mariquita, (literally, "Little Mary") means ladybird in Spanish.{{cite book|last1=Roberts|first1=Edward A.|title=A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots: Volume II (H - Z and Appendix)|date=2014|publisher=Xlibris Corporation|isbn=9781493191116|page=175|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxxwAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA175|accessdate=31 July 2017|language=en}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}}
Moberly studied in Germany and under Carolus-Duran in Paris.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950}}{{cite book|author=Adrian Vincent|publisher=David & Charles|year=1991|title= A Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Artists |ISBN=0715398237}} She painted portraits, figure studies, animals and landscapes in oils, watercolours and pastels. Moberly was a member of the New Society of Artists and 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. 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.{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-secret-path-58728|title=The Secret Path|work=Art UK|accessdate=13 May 2013}}
She died in Mitcham, Surrey, on 1 November 1937, one day before her 82nd birthday.{{cite news| title = Deaths| newspaper= The Times| location= London, England| date= 2 November 1937| page= 1| quote= Moberly.—On Monday, Nov. 1, 1937, at Ravensbury Gardens, Morden Road, Mitcham, Surrey, Mariquita Jenny, widow of Herbert Guy Moberly, aged 82.}}
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Category:19th-century English women artists
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Category:19th-century English painters
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