Mary Stoddard (c.1852 – 10 June 1901), was a Scottish-born artist who spent twenty years in Australia and was known for her still life paintings, miniatures and full-size portraits, including two of Sir Henry Parkes.

[1] Stoddard was the daughter of portrait painter and photographer, Peter Devine and Catherine née Rae.

In 1875 she married Frederick Wahab Stoddard and the couple moved to New Zealand to take up farming.

[2] Moving to Sydney, Australia in about 1880, Stoddard joined the Art Society of New South Wales and began to enter her artworks in the annual exhibitions they organised.

[3] Her work is included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery,[4] State Library of New South Wales[5] and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.