Lillian Meeser (1864 – 1942; born in Ridley Park, Pennsylvania) was a painter, etcher, and block printer. Art historians consider her one of the originators of the Modern Decorative Still Life, a fashion that began with the impressionists and post-impressionists of the late 1800s. Meeser’s work also shows the influence of Japanese art (as, for example, does Manet’s). In Meeser’s still-lifes, the paint application and brushwork recall Impressionist work. .

Her preparation as an artist was distinguished: she studied at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) in Philadelphia, the Art Students League in New York City, and the Worcester, Massachusetts Museum of Art. Her teachers included Hugh Breckenridge, Philip Hale, George DeForrest Brush, Charles Woodbury, Joseph De Camp and other eminent artists. In Philadelphia, she was a member of the Art Alliance, the Plastic Club, and the Fellowship of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. In Massachusetts she belonged to the North Shore Arts Association (Gloucester) and the Provincetown Art Association. After 1886, when she married Dr. Spencer B. Meeser, who was minister of the Woodward Avenue Baptist Church, she lived and worked as an artist in Detroit.