Mary Franklin

1842 — 1928

North American painter and etcher, having lived a good twenty years in France, especially in Paris but also a stay in Arles ; art teacher (1842–1928)

Mary Jett Franklin (1842–1928) was an American genre and portrait artist who attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She traveled to Paris in 1889 to continue her art education at the Académie Colarossi, one of the few art schools to accept female students at that time.