Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (June 7, 1884 – January 11, 1972) was an American painter of portraits, indoor genre scenes, and still lifes.

From early 1944 through May 1945, Browne served the USO as a portrait sketcher, volunteering three times a week, as her diaries, now archived at the Boston Public Library, indicate.

[5] Browne excelled in figure painting, with subjects such as "The Chess Player," "The Art Students," “Bridge,” “Little Leaguers,” and portraits of ballet dancers.

A Studio of Her Own[2] describes how Browne injected a great deal of feeling into a simple design, demonstrating a flair for the human and pictorial qualities of her portraits.

As Raymond Agler, Fine Arts Dealer, writes on his web page: Browne's love of the staged scene found perfect expression in her annual "Wax Works," the tableau vivants that she produced every summer for 25 years at the Annisquam Sea Fair (which continues to the present, and was the subject of an article in the "New Yorker").

She had an uncanny talent for identifying facial similarities of the famous or infamous in the looks and manners of her neighbors—who were then recruited to pose as wax figures, the subjects ranging from Marat (with a gob of ketchup on his chest) in his bathtub to Little Miss Muffet.In 1927, Browne won a commission to go to Europe to paint the King of Spain for the New York Yacht Club.

It was published in the March 2, 1941 edition of the Boston Sunday Globe, and in it she described the King as lively, humorous, agreeable, and a capital story teller.

[7] Two years after her death at age 87, the Copley Society held the "Memorial Exhibition of Flower Compositions and a Few Portraits by Margaret Fitzhugh Browne."