# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-gartside
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:36:21.491Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-gartside"
name: "Mary Gartside"
slug: "mary-gartside"
description: "Mary Gartside was an English water colourist and colour theorist. She published three books between 1805 and 1808. In chronological and intellectual terms Mary Gartside can be regarded an exemplary link between Moses Harris, who published his short but important Natural System of Colours around 1766, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s highly influential theory Zur Farbenlehre, first published in 1810. Gartside's colour theory was published privately under the disguise of a traditional water colouring manual. She is the first recorded woman known to have published a theory of colour."
tagline: "British artist (approximately 1755-1819)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/An_Essay_on_a_New_Theory_of_Colour%2C_1808_by_Gartside.png/330px-An_Essay_on_a_New_Theory_of_Colour%2C_1808_by_Gartside.png"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1755"
deathDate: "1819-12-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.08
  momentum:             0.4624277456647399
  historical:           4.606516
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "مارى جارتسيد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gartside"
    title: "Mary Gartside"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gartside"
    title: "Mary Gartside"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gartside"
    title: "Mary Gartside"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Gartside"
    title: "Mary Gartside"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6779618"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump