Margaret Ferguson Winner (1866 - December 21, 1937) was an illustrator, portrait painter, and miniaturist.
She was born and raised in Philadelphia and held a Fellowship at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Musical composer Septimus Winner was her father.
As a painter, she completed 13 portraits for Dickinson College. The paintings she did of Dickinson presidents hung in Old West and Bosler Hall.
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. She painted Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney, posthumously, and also painted a portrait of Dr. William Ruoff.
She lived at 1706 North 16th Street.
Her photograph appears in the book Septimus Winner: Two Lives in Music. She was a member of the Art Alliance and Plastic Club.
Books she illustrated
- Her Very Best (1901) by Amy E. Blanchard
- Dearie, Dot, and the Dog (1904) by Julie M. Lippmann
- Mistress Moppet (1904) by Annie M. Barnes
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