Van Rensselaer, Mariana (1851–1934)

US art critic. She published many books on art and architecture, including the first work on a contemporary American architect, Henry Hobson Richardson and His Works (1888). She is primarily known for her scholarly work, History of the City of New York in the Seventeenth Century (2 vols. 1909).

Van Rensselaer was born in New York City. She was educated privately and travelled extensively in Germany. She married in 1873, lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and returned to New York City after her husband's death in 1884.