Mary Ann Xantippe "Tip" Saunders (January 1, 1838 – December 4, 1922) was an American portrait painter and art teacher.
In New York, she studied under Lemuel Wilmarth and in the studio of Joseph Oriel Eaton.
[2] In 1856, Saunders graduated cum laude at Greenville Institute at Harrodsburg, Kentucky.
After the Civil War, she studied art in earnest, both under Cornelius Pering and at the Cooper Union Academy of Design, focusing on portrait painting.
[4] Xantippe Saunders died on December 4, 1922, and is interred in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville.