• Clayton, English Female Artists, I, London 1876, p. 409
• Redgrave, A dictionary of artists of the English school: painters, sculptors, architects, engravers and ornamentists, London (seconda ed.) 1878, p. 11
• Graves, A Dictionary of Artists who have exhibited works in the principal London exhibitions of oil paintings from 1760-1880, London 1901
• Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts. A complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904, I, London 1905, p. 54
• **, in U. Thieme - F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der Bildenden Künstler, von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, I, Leipzig 1907, p. 544 ad vocem “Ansley, Mrs. Mary Anne”
• Graves, The British Institution, 1806-1867. A complete dictionary of contributors and their workfrom the foundation of the Institution, London 1908
• O’Donoghue, Ca Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, III, 1912, p. 486; VI, 1925, p. 98
• Johnson, Works exhibited at The Royal Society of British Artists 1824-93. An Antique Collectors’ Club Research Project, I, Woodbridge 1975
• Petteys, Dictionary of Women Artists. An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, Boston 1985, p. 21 ad vocem “Ansley, Mary Ann, née Gandon”
• L., in Allgemeines Künstlerlexicon der Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker, III, Leipzig 1990, p. 404 ad vocem “Ansley, Mary Anne”

Pittrice e litografa britannica. Il cognome da nubile riportato nelle voci bibliografiche è Gaudon o Gandon. Sposa il Colonel Ansley.

Tra il 1812 e il 1834 è presente alle esposizioni londinesi. Dipinge ritratti e scene mitologiche.

Tra il 1812 e il 1818 espone a Londra, alla British Institution, dove nel 1813 presenta un Perseo ed Andromeda.

Tra il 1814 e il 1833 partecipa alle mostre della Royal Academy.

Nel 1833 e nel 1834 espone alla Society of Artists.

Muore nel 1840 a Napoli (Thieme-Becker)

Si conservano incisioni eseguite direttamente da lei o dai suoi dipinti.

LONDRA

British Museum

Teti e Peleo / From and Original Picture by Mrs. Ansley. Size 4 ft. 2 in. by 3 ft. 4 in.”, litografia, firmata “Drawn on Stone by M.A. Ansley. / Printed by Rowney & Forster”, 207 x 171 mm, inv. 1867,0309.409

Altre incisioni da dipinti Mary Ann Ansley:

Ritratto di Thomas William Fermor, primo conte di Pomfret, litografia, iscrizione “Drawn on Stone by M. Gauci from an original painting in oil by Mrs. Colonel Ansley. / Printed by Engelmann & Co.”, inv. 1858,1009.311

Ritratto di Maria Cohen mentre balla, litografia, iscrizione “Mrs Alexr Cohen from a Sketch by Mrs Colnl Ansley 1834”, inv. 1912,1212.2