Margaret Bucknell Pecorini

Margaret Bucknell Pecorini (1879–1963) was an American painter.

A native of Philadelphia, Margaret Crozer Bucknell was the daughter of the patron of Bucknell University, William Bucknell and his third wife, Titanic survivor Emma (Ward) Bucknell; she studied in Paris, at the Académie Julian, and occasionally showed work at the Paris Salon. She married twice, first to Charles F. Stearns – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island – and second to Count Daniele Pecorini of Rome. She worked for the International Red Cross during both world wars. As a painter, she specialized in children's portraits. She died in Guttenberg, New Jersey.^[1]

Pecorini's portrait of Janet Scudder is in the collection of the National Academy of Design,^[1] and another work is in the Brooklyn Museum.^[2]

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