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Aberigh-Mackay, Mary Livingston (Aberigh-Mackay, Patty) [1874-1952. UK. Painter]
Aberigh-Mackay, Mary Livingston (Aberigh-Mackay, Patty) [1874-1952. UK. Painter]
Mary Livingston Aberigh-Smith [also known as Patty Aberigh-Smith] was born in Bellari, Delhi, Colonial India on 4 November 1874. Her father was George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1848-1881), an Anglo-Indian writer and professor of English literature at Delhi College. She subsequently moved to England. Nothing is known about her training as an artist. By 1901 she was working as an art teacher at Ladies Residential Chambers in Bloomsbury, London. Between 1904 and 1906 she exhibited at the Royal academy in London and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool under the name Patty Aberigh-Mackay and Mary Aberigh-Mackay. By this time she was living in Long Melford, Suffolk. She wrote an account of a sketching tour she made in the Kashmir Valley for ‘The Studio’ January 1916. She died in Sudbury, Suffolk on 15 January 1952.
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