Margaret Seguier
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Margaret Seguier ({{nee}} Stewart; 1795–1870) was a British miniature painter.
Biography
Seguier was the eldest daughter of Anthony Stewart, 1773–1846, a portrait and miniature painter from Crieff in Perthshire and of Janet Weir whose father, Alexander Weir, was also a painter.{{cite book|author= HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison (Editors)|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 52 (Spruce-Strakosch)|isbn=0-19-861402-0}}{{cite book|author=Peter J.M. McEwan|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1994|title=The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture|isbn=1-85149-134-1}} Their father taught both Margaret and her younger sister, Grace Campbell Stewart, to paint. Margaret is praised in contemporary accounts for her portrait miniatures but no artistic record or specific attributions exist. Margaret married John Seguier, 1785–1856, who was a picture restorer and supintendent at the British Institution. They had a son, Peter Seguier who became a successful author, writing A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Work of Painters.
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Category:19th-century British women artists
Category:19th-century Scottish painters
Category:19th-century Scottish women painters
Category:British portrait miniaturists