Stefano di Francesco was an Italian (Florentine) painter, who probably died young, as he left a five year old son, and was outlived twenty years by his father-in-law, the painter Giuliano Pesello

Giuliano Pesello

Giuliano Pesello , whose actual name was Giuliano d'Arrigho, but was known as Pesello, was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Castagno. Vasari states he painted drawings of animals with skill...

 (1367-1446). His son was the painter Francesco Pesellino

Francesco Pesellino

Francesco Pesellino , also known as Francesco di Stefano, Il Pesellino, Francesco Peselli, and Francesco di Stefano Pesellino was an Italian painter...

(1422-1457), the most distinguished of the three. Nothing is known of Stefano di Francesco's painting.