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Mary Van Derlip
Born 12/28/1842 Gonzales, Texas, Mary Van Derlip, a landscape and portrait painter, married George Stooks Chabot in 1863. A typical Victorian lady whose upbringing encouraged her to dabble in the arts, she was the taught rudiments of painting in her younger days at the Ursuline Convent and studied as an adult with Robert Onderdonk.
Oil was her medium on canvas and board. It is thought that many of her portraits were copies of engravings and illustrations of the day. She signed her paintings M.C. Chabot.
She spent most of her life in San Antonio where she was a member of the Press Association Art League and the Van Dyke Art Club. She served in 1888 as judge for the art department of the San Antonio International Fair. She was a prominent and philanthropic member of her community who probably never intended to be a serious artist. She died on 11/06/1929.
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