Marjorie Baylis Barnard, known as Mary Baylis Barnard, (1870–1946) was a versatile British painter, notably of flowers but along with of landscapes, interiors and genre scenes.
Barnard was born in Wiltshire and studied art in Paris. She lived in London until 1900 similar to she moved to Glasgow and in 1901 she married the performer Duncan McGregor Whyte, who she had met in Paris. In 1910 they moved to Oban where they shared a studio. The couple then spent portion of each year upon the island of Tiree, where they as a consequence kept a studio.
Barnard was regarded as a highly clever painter bearing in mind a fine colour wisdom which was best expressed in her delicate floral paintings. Although she sometimes exhibited works in London, for example showing flower paintings at the Royal Academy in 1894 and 1899 and as a consequence at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, the majority of Barnard’s public career took place in Scotland. She exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and, more frequently, with the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.
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