Mary Martha Pearson

[8]When her husband developed a site in Westminster, on the south side of St James's Park, the block of buildings constructed included both offices for himself, and a studio and gallery for his wife.

[6][10] The Times, reviewing her painting of one of them, William Taylor Copeland, shown at the Royal Academy in 1836, said that, in the light of her civic portraits, "the least the Corporation of London could do, would be to present the fair delineator of their well-fed countenances with the freedom of the city, emblazoned on a rosewood palette".

[11] According to a report in The Athenæum Journal, at the time, her accompanying letter announced it as "the last picture of that magnitude which it is her intention to undertake.

"[11] Her sister, a miniature painter (named in the catalogues simply as "Miss Dutton") showed portraits of her at the Royal Academy in 1834 and 1852.

[2] She died on 15 April 1871, aged 72,[5] at Brighton, and was buried with her husband in a large sarcophagus tomb at West Norwood Cemetery.