MacDonald sisters: Difference between revisions

Agnes was a talented pianist and thought to be the best looking of the sisters.<ref name=":0">{{Cite ODNB|title=Macdonald sisters (act. 1837–1925)|year= 2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-76071|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/76071|last1= Morse|first1= Elizabeth J.}}</ref> She and her sister Georgiana received attention from prospective suitors who were friends of her brother and members of the [[Birmingham Set]].<ref name="Jiminez2013">{{cite book|author=Jill Berkiminez|title=Dictionary of Artists' Models|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ogFYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA91| date=15 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-95914-2|pages=91–}}</ref> She eventually married the future president of the Royal Academy [[Edward Poynter]] during 1866 in a double wedding with her quieter sister Louisa. Poynter appeared to be a manic depressive and he would paint continuously until finally collapsing when a work was finished. He was unemotional and it was Agnes who supplied the affection in their household.<ref name=":0" /> Her husband later produced paintings of two of her sisters. She, [[Jane Morris]] and her sisters Louisa and Georgiana are thought to be the inspiration for figures of Burne-Jones' 1864 painting [[''Green Summer]]''.<ref name="green">[{{Cite web |last=Bennett |first=David |title=A brief history of the McDonald sisters and the connections to Wolverhampton - Living in Wolverhampton, 1862-1867 |url=http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/genealogy/Macdonald/page3.htm Living in Wolverhampton, 1862|access-1867],date=2022-03-01 Historywebsite, Retrieved 7 July 2016|website=www.historywebsite.co.uk}}</ref> Agnes is thought to have died during 1906 from cancer despite an operation in 1903.<ref name=":0" />