Lucy May Stanton was an American painter. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the first of two daughters of William Lewis Stanton and Frances Louisa Cleveland Megee Stanton. Stanton is best known for the portrait miniatures she painted. Her works are in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She was educated at the Southern Female College in LaGrange, Georgia and studied with another female French teacher, Mme Ada Autrie. She grew up in Atlanta during its recovery from the Civil War and her art often represented her southern heritage. She exhibited more than 100 miniatures with the Pennsylvania Society of Miniature Painters and 93 works of art, mostly miniatures, with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She died in 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.