Mary B. Tucker

Mary Bagnall Tucker Fogg (January 8, 1824 – November 29, 1898) was an American folk painter. She is known for a series of distinctive watercolor and pastel portraits created in Massachusetts in the 1840s signed as Mary B. Tucker.

Life and career Mary B. Tucker was born on January 8, 1824, in New London, Connecticut, the daughter of Rev. Thomas W. Tucker, an itinerant Methodist Episcopal preacher, and his wife Mary "Polly" Orne Tucker, a diarist whose work was posthumously published as Itinerant Preaching in the Early Days of Methodism, by a Pioneer Preacher’s Wife (1872). Arthur B. Kern proposed in 2009 that she was Meribah Mowry Tucker (1784–1853) based largely on the similarity of names. Michael R. Payne and Suzanne Rudnick Payne identified her as Mary Bagnall Tucker in 2019.