Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts (June 10, 1871 – March 12, 1927) was an American painter who lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Paris, and Concord, Massachusetts.

She established the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she had studied and won the Mary Smith Prize.

[1] Her mother, Sarah Cazenova Roberts, wanted her to be a stylish young woman in Philadelphia and New York upper class society.

[2] She exhibited a painting of two widows in a church, Blessed Are They That Weep, at the Palais des Champs Elysees Salon in the spring of 1892 and received an honorable mention, along with New York sculptor Daniel Chester French.

Philadelphia Evening Telegraph reporter, Lucy H. Hooper, who was in Paris at the time, stated, "A singularly powerful piece of work this is to have been created by a girl of twenty.

[1] In 1902, Roberts founded the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[7] for the best landscape.

[8] The Doll and Richards Gallery in Boston exhibited her portrait paintings of Frank B. Sanborn, an educator, and Judge John S.

[2] In 1908, the Detroit Institute of Arts held an exhibition of 30 of Robert's seascapes, some of which included playing children and families.

She purchased the John Ball House in 1922 and hired architect Lois Howe to renovate the building for its use as the Concord Art Centre, the original name of the organization.

[2] The grand opening was held on May 6, 1923, with sixty painters and eighteen sculptors from Europe and the United States in attendance.

Among the noted artists were Claude Monet, Robert Henri, Mary Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent.

[2] Roberts inherited family residences, including a summer house in Hopkinton, New Hampshire from her mother and a New York City apartment.

[1] The two women began living together in 1900 in a Concord, Massachusetts house that Roberts bought on Estabrook Road.

[13] Keyes organized Roberts's personal life, house, her work schedule, and domestic and international vacations.