Mary Jane Hancock (1810 – 1896) was an English artist and naturalist and an elected member of the Natural History Society of Northumbria.

Mary would go on expeditions through Northumberland and County Durham, creating art based on nature.

Her works utilized different media on paper, including ink in her paintings of The Old Tyne Bridge, Moot Hall, St Nicholas Cathedral and Castle,[2] and watercolour in her sketch of Albany Hancock and Miss Jane Bewick walking towards a cottage door in Cumbria,[1] as well as Tynemouth Watercolor.

Hancock was an early contributor to the North East's natural history collections through her work as a naturalist.

[5] The featured scientists were Hancock, Dr. Kathleen Blackburn, ornothologist Catharine Hodgkin, Dr. Marie V. Lebour, bryologist Evelyn Lobley, Grace Hickling and botanical artist Margaret Rebecca Dickinson.