Catherine Charlotte Raper

Catherine Charlotte Raper (c. 1766–1809) was an English pastellist. She received the Greater Silver Pallet Award from the Society of Arts for one of her works.

Family Raper was almost certainly the daughter of Henry and Catherine Raper who was baptized on 16 May 1766 in the church of St Andrew Holborn in London.

Career In 1789, whilst living in Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London, Raper received the Greater Silver Pallet Award from the Society of Arts for one of her pastel paintings.

Personal life On 16 December 1789, in Calcutta, Bengal, Raper married a soldier in the service of the East India Company, Major James Edward Browne. They had one son, before her husband died at Dinapore on 22 June 22 1792.

In 1794, still in Calcutta, Raper married again, this time to Lieutenant Charles Fraser. The couple had ten children, three of whom were born after the couple returned to Great Britain (before 1806).