Maria Martin Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina, was an American watercolor painter and scientific illustrator. She contributed many of the background paintings for John James Audubon's The Birds of America (1831–39) and Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845–48). Bachman was the only woman of the three principal assistants that Audubon employed at the time.
- Occupation
- painter, scientific illustrator, botanical illustrator, editor
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 6, 1796
- Died
- December 18, 1863
