Portrait of Marguerete Pearson

Formal portrait of a young woman with a Venus de Milo behind her on a tabletop. Palette is restrained to whites and light grays.

Margaret Fitzhugh Browne (June 7, 1884, West Roxbury, Massachusetts – January 11, 1972, Boston, Massachusetts ) was a painter of portraits, indoor genre scenes, and still lifes. Browne graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1903. She then studied at the Massachusetts Normal School from 1904 to 1909, where she studied with Joseph DeCamp, landscape artist Richard Andrew, and color theorist Albert H. Munsell. She attended the Boston Museum School in 1909 and 1910, receiving instruction from Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson.