Lucy Lee-Robbins (1865–1943) was an expatriate American painter living in France. She is known for her portraits of female nudes, an unusual subject for women painters in the late 19th century.^[1] She was the first female associate member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.^[2]

Lee-Robbins was born to Samuel Howland Robbins and Sophia Morgan Robbins, both of wealthy banking families, on 24 June 1865^[2] in New York.^[3] She and her family moved to Paris in the 1880s. In 1884 she joined a women's atelier run by Carolus-Duran and Jean-Jacques Henner. The same year her portrait was painted by Carolus-Duran.^[2]

In 1887 Lee-Robbins debuted at the Salon of the Société des Artistes Français.^[4] She also exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Union des femmes peintres et sculpteurs [fr].^[2]

Starting in 1889 she exhibited with the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts and in 1890 was appointed the first female associate member of the Societe.^[2]

Lee-Robbins exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.^[5]

In 1895 she married fellow painter Hendrik-George van Rinkhuyzen.^[2][5]

Lee-Robbins died on 28 July 1943 in Paris, France. Because her final years were spent in Nazi-occupied Paris, the disposition of her paintings is not well documented.^[2]

• Portrait of woman in black hat, 1890
• Young woman in front of her mirror, 1891