Mary Moser (later Mrs. Hugh Lloyd) died on 14 May 1819 in London, one of the last surviving founding members of the Royal Academy.
Mary Moser, by then known as Mary Lloyd following her 1793 marriage to Captain Hugh Lloyd, died on 14 May 1819 in London at the age of 74. By the time of her death, she was among the last surviving founding members of the Royal Academy of Arts, an institution she had helped establish more than five decades earlier in 1768.
Moser's later life had seen her scale back her exhibiting activity after her marriage, though she continued to be associated with the Academy and remained a celebrated figure for her earlier accomplishments, particularly her flower paintings and her decorative work, including the famous painted room at Frogmore House commissioned by Queen Charlotte.
Her death marked the end of an era for the Royal Academy, closing the chapter on its founding generation and the unique circumstance that had allowed two women, Moser and Angelica Kauffman, to become full Academicians. Her legacy endured through her artworks held in royal and public collections, and through the historical significance of her role as a pioneering woman in British art institutions. It would take until the 20th century for another woman to attain the same institutional status she had held since the Academy's founding.