Mary Margaret Heaton

Mary Margaret Heaton (1836–1883), (born Mary Margaret Keymer), was an English art historian.

Life[]

She was the eldest daughter of James Keymer, a silk-printer, and his wife Margaret, a sister of Samuel Laman Blanchard. Her father was a close friend of Douglas Jerrold, and knew other literary men. In 1863 she married Charles William Heaton, a professor of chemistry. She died on 1 June 1883.^[1]

Works[]

Heaton's first published work was verse for children, written to the designs of . In 1869 she published Masterpieces of Flemish Art, and in 1870 Life of Albrecht Dürer, the first full biography of the artist published in England. It was a success, and Charles Appleton then had her contribute to The Academy.^[1]

Concise History of Painting (1873) had a new edition in 1888, as part of Bohn's "Artists' Library". Heaton also prepared a new edition of Allan Cunningham's Lives of British Painters, and wrote new biographies and some of the major articles in the new edition of Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers.^[1] She co-authored with Charles Christopher Black Leonardo da Vinci and his Works (1874), and translated Julius Meyer's biography of Correggio (1876).^[2]

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Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Heaton, Mary Margaret". Dictionary of National Biography. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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