https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Maria_Bellett_BrowneMaria Bellett Browne - Revision history2026-10-28T14:45:31ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.43.6https://en.bharatpedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maria_Bellett_Browne&diff=516494&oldid=prevAnis: entry2026-01-29T18:54:23Z<p>entry</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox person/Wikidata<br />
<br />
|fetchwikidata=ALL<br />
<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Maria Bellett Browne''' (30 December 1786 – 13 February 1828) was a British [[Portrait miniature|miniature]] painter in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]]. <br />
<br />
Maria Bellett Roberts was born on 30 December 1786 in London, the daughter of Arundel Roberts and Mary Bellett Roberts. She was educated in [[Sampford Arundel|Samford Arundel]]. At the age of 19, she accompanied her brother Arundel Roberts, Jr., an [[East India Company]] agent, to [[Kolkata|Calcutta]]. In 1806, she married Marmaduke Browne, an East India Company military officer stationed at [[Fort William, West Bengal|Fort William]]. They had two sons, Arthur and Tom, and two daughters who died in infancy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ormond |first=Richard |date=1972 |title=Chinnery and His Pupil, Mrs Browne |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41829435 |journal=The Volume of the Walpole Society |volume=44 |pages=123–214 |issn=0141-0016 |archive-date=2025-01-02 |access-date=2025-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250102145240/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41829435 |url-status=live }}</ref><br />
<br />
In Calcutta, she painted at least a hundred portrait miniatures of British people, usually giving them as gifts or in trade. She studied under the painter [[George Chinnery]] and they carried on an extensive correspondence about art techniques and theories. <ref name=":0" /><br />
<br />
In 1823, she and her husband returned to England. Plagued with poor health, she remained in Samford Arundel while he returned to India. She died on 13 February 1828.<ref name=":0" /><br />
<br />
== Gallery ==<br />
<gallery><br />
File:Jane Eliza Sherwood.jpg|Jane Eliza Sherwood Russell<br />
File:Maria Bellet Browne - Portrait of Mrs Thomas Browne.jpg|Mrs. Thomas Browne<br />
File:Mrs Marmaduke Brown - portrait of James Atkinson, 1780-1852 SNG PG 435.jpg|[[James Atkinson (Persian scholar)|James Atkinson]]<br />
<br />
</gallery><br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
* <br />
<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellett, Maria}}<br />
[[Category:Created via preloaddraft]]<br />
[[Category:1786 births]]<br />
[[Category:1828 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Miniature painting]]<br />
[[Category:British women painters]]<br />
[[Category:Painters from London]]<br />
[[Category:British people in British India]]</div>Anis