Pat de Groot (née Patricia Richardson; 1930–2018) was an English-born American painter and illustrator.
[3][4][5] Pat de Groot was born as Patricia Richards on June 14, 1930, in St John’s Wood, London, England, to parents Evelyn "Evie" Straus Weil and Ernald W. A.
[1] De Groot also would rent out a room in her house in the summer to visiting creative people, such as John Waters, Philip Hoare, and painter Richard Baker.
[14][15] In 2000, she had her first solo exhibition in New York City of small seascape oil paintings at the Pat Hearn Gallery.
[18] She died of a stroke on July 26, 2018, in Brewster, Massachusetts, U.S..[1][6] De Groot has an artist file at the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library.