Sarah Stone

Sarah Stone (3September 175911January 1844 ), later known as Sarah Smith, was a British natural history illustrator and painter. Her works included many studies of specimens brought back to England from expeditions in Australia and the Pacific. Her illustrations are amongst the first studies of many species and are as scientifically significant. She worked as a draftsman, natural history and scientific illustrator, and painter between 1777 and 1820.

Sarah Stone once created an artwork featuring a rare Heva Tūpāpāʻu funeral costume, collected by Captain Cook during a voyage to Tahiti.

Stone's work is held by the British Museum and the Victoria Gallery and Museum, University of Liverpool in Great Britain, and the National Library of Australia, and the State Library of New South Wales in Australia.