Lee-Robbins was born to Samuel Howland Robbins and Sophia Morgan Robbins, both of wealthy banking families, on 24 June 1865 in New York. She and her family moved to Paris in the 1880s. In 1884 she joined a women's
atelier run by
Carolus-Duran and
Jean-Jacques Henner. The same year her portrait was painted by Carolus-Duran. She also exhibited at the
National Academy of Design, the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the
Art Institute of Chicago, and the . In 1895 she married fellow painter Hendrik-George van Rinkhuyzen. Lee-Robbins died on 28 July 1943 in Paris, France. Because her final years were spent in
Nazi-occupied Paris, the disposition of her paintings is not well documented. ==Gallery==