Pat de Groot

Pat de Groot (née Patricia Richardson; 1930–2018) was an English-born American painter and illustrator. She lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts for many years, and was noted for her oil paintings and drawings of seascapes and birds.

Early life and education Pat de Groot was born as Patricia Richards on June 14, 1930, in St John’s Wood, London, England, to parents Evelyn "Evie" Straus Weil and Ernald W. A. Richardson. She was the great granddaughter of Isidor Straus. Her father Ernald W. A. Richardson came from high social class, and served in the Queen's Regiment. Her parents divorced when she was a child, and in 1940 she moved to New York City, New York, United States. Months later in 1963, her husband Nanno de Groot died of lung cancer.

Her parties in Provincetown in the 1960s and 1970s attracted celebrities, musicians, and artists.

De Groot never had formal training in fine art, and started to seriously purse the field in 1974, at the age of 44. In 2000, she had her first solo exhibition in New York City of small seascape oil paintings at the Pat Hearn Gallery. In 2002, she was awarded the Anonymous Was A Woman Award; and in 2007 she was awarded the Lee Krasner Award from Pollock-Krasner Foundation. She had a survey exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association in 2009.

She died of a stroke on July 26, 2018, in Brewster, Massachusetts, U.S.. De Groot has an artist file at the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library.