Born 1866 in Washington and died at the age of 83 in Little Rock, AR. She was one of the first Arkansas women to gain a national reputation.

Many of her works can be seen at the Arkansas State Capitol Building. She often painted life-size portraits of celebrities for public buildings. Other celebrities whom her brush captured were Mrs. Jefferson Davie (in the Confederate Museum in Richmond VA) George C. Williams (Pres. Of Chemical National Bank in New York, Mrs. Hetty Green, etc. She finished public school here in Washington, attended the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, VA, Cincinnati Art Academy, Beaux Arts for Women in Paris and Ecole de Medicine to study the human anatomy. She is survived by a brother, A. P. Delony of Hope, who gave the painting "Southern Gentleman" to the tavern (in the Old Washington Historic State Park). She married N. J. Rice, in 1891, and lived in New York City, on 57th Street until she moved back to Little Rock in 1937. She also did miniatures on ivory, best known of which is Queen Victoria.

Her father was Alchyny Turner Deloney, born 1828 and her mother was Elizabeth Lawson Pearson, born 1840. Jenny had no children.

Biography courtesy of Gail Martin, Southwest Arkansas Regional Archives