Mary Henrietta Dering Curtois (1854–1929) was a British artist, known for painting genre scenes, landscapes and portraits.
Curtois was born at Branston in Lincolnshire and studied art at the Lincoln School of Art and plus in London and in Paris at the Académie Julian. She exhibited at a number of London galleries including, between 1887 and 1902, at the New Gallery and furthermore showed six works at the Royal Academy. Between 1887 and 1928 Curtois as a consequence exhibited works similar to the Society of Women Artists.
Curtois lived at Washingborough Manor near Lincoln and in London, until superior in life when she moved to Little Missenden in Buckinghamshire where she was an active believer of the Buckinghamshire Art Society. Both the Usher Gallery in Lincoln and Canterbury Museums and Galleries maintain examples of her work. Her sister, Ella Rose Curtois was a sculptor.
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