Frances Eliza Macdonald
Other names: Frances MacNair
Born 24 August 1873
Died 1921
Active: 1894 - 1921
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Scotland
Sculptor
Frances Eliza MacDonald married (James) Herbert MacNair in 1899 and was sister to Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh (5 November 1865–10 January 1933), and sister-in-law to Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928)
Works
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Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1898
'The Star of Bethlehem'
Exhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1897
1897
The Star of Bethlehem (cat. no. 1309, relief, £21 10s.).
Personal and Professional Connections
Friends with Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1894 (Circa) - 1921
Brother/sister-in-law
Sister/sibling of Margaret Macdonald
Wife/husband/spouse to J. Herbert MacNair
14 June 1899 - 1921
Sources
Autumn exhibition of modern pictures in oil and water-colours: the twenty-seventh, 1897 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1897
pp. 44-47.
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1898
1898
Cat. No. 264, pp. 29, 70
Citing this record
'Frances Eliza Macdonald', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1207687573, accessed 26 May 2020]
