Marie Elisabeth Wiegmann (7 November 1820 – 4 December 1893) née Hancke,[1] was a German genre and portrait painter who worked in Britain, Germany, and the Netherlands.

[1] Marie Wiegmann was born 7 November 1820 in Silberbeg, Silesia, now modern-day Srebrna Góra, a Polish town in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

[4] She was regarded at the time as one of the greatest students of Sohn,[1] and she won a gold medal in Berlin for one of her works.

In 1876, three of her works were established in the National Gallery of Berlin: A Venetian Lady, A Young Girl with Roses, and A French Woman of 1792.

From the years to 1846 to 1850, Wiegmann focused on works based on fairytale and mythical stories mostly from late romantic literary models.