Margaret_F._Winner

Margaret F. Winner

Margaret F. Winner

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Margaret Ferguson Winner (1866 - December 21, 1937) was an illustrator, portrait painter, and miniaturist.[1][2][3]

She was born and raised in Philadelphia and held a Fellowship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.[4] Musical composer Septimus Winner was her father.[5]

As a painter, she completed 13 portraits for Dickinson College.[5] The paintings she did of Dickinson presidents hung in Old West and Bosler Hall.[6]

She painted a portrait of John Kirk McCurdy, a Rough Rider, that is part of the permanent collection at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.[7][8] She painted Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney, posthumously,[5] and also painted a portrait of Dr. William Ruoff.[9]

She lived at 1706 North 16th Street.[5]

Her photograph appears in the book Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music.[10] She was a member of the Art Alliance and Plastic Club.[4]

Books she illustrated

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  1. [1]
    "MISS M. F. WINNER, PORTRAIT PAINTER; Philadelphia Artist Is Dead at 71--Daughter of Writer of Well-Known Songs". The New York Times. December 22, 1937.
  2. [2]
    "Arts Magazine". Art Digest Incorporated. May 15, 1937 – via Google Books.
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    "Arts Magazine". Art Digest Incorporated. June 22, 1937 – via Google Books.
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    "1937-12-22 - Mgt Winner d". December 22, 1937. p. 4 – via newspapers.com.
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    "1937-12-22 - Mgt Winner d". December 22, 1937. p. 4 – via Philadelphia Inquirer at newspapers.com.
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    http://archives.dickinson.edu/sites/all/files/files-dmagazine/DCAM_015_3_0.pdf Dickinson Alumnus February 1938, Necrology page 24
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    "John Kirk McCurdy". Smithsonian Institution.
  8. [8]
    Barnes, Mark (September 13, 2010). The Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898-1902: An Annotated Bibliography. Routledge. ISBN 9781136936982 – via Google Books.
  9. [9]
    Philadelphia, Art Club of (May 15, 1900). "Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture". Morris Press – via pages 21 and 99.
  10. [10]
    Remson, Michael (May 15, 2002). Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810845404 – via Google Books.
  11. [11]
    "Image 9 of Her very best, Library of Congress".
  12. [12]
    Shaw, Albert (May 15, 1904). "The American Monthly Review of Reviews". Review of Reviews – via Google Books.
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