Jennie Byrd Bryan Payne (1857–August 1, 1919) was an American philanthropist, artist and society figure.

Soon after her death, the founding gift for what became the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts was made by her husband John Barton Payne in memory of her and her mother-in-law.

[4] She joined her older brother Charles Page Bryan, a diplomat, on many of his assignments abroad.

[13][14] She was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.[15] After her father's death, many of the paintings from his large collection of George Peter Alexander Healy's works had been inherited by her.

[16] In 1920, her widowed husband gave a collection of forty masterpieces to the State of Virginia, a gift valued at time at over $1 million.