Lot 432: Blanche F. MacArthur (British, active 1870-1903) Portrait of Georgina MacDonald, later Lady Burne-Jones

Portrait of Georgina MacDonald, later Lady Burne-Jones
Signed and dated 1881, oil on canvas,
53 x 43.5cm (20 7/8 x 17 1/8in).

Georgina Macdonald (1840-1920) was one of eleven children born into a strict methodist family, in 1860 she married the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Many of her siblings also courted fame: One sister married Edward Poynter, artist and president of the Royal Academy; another was mother to Stanley Baldwin and a fourth sister was mother to Rudyard Kipling.