She married her cousin, the sculptor Francis Chantrey, in 1809, and eventually contributed the bulk of her husband's estate to the Royal Academy.

REFERENCES TO Lady Mary Anne Chantrey [née Wale]:

Sir Walter Scott to Alan Cunningham, [December 1820] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

Henry Crabb Robinson to Samuel Rogers, [November 1848] in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)