Designer Biography

Frances Macdonald

Born: 1874

Died: 1921

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The younger of the Macdonald sisters, Frances studied at the Glasgow School of Art from about 1890. There she met Herbert MacNair, whom she married in 1899, and they moved to Liverpool where Herbert had been appointed to teach at the University. They participated in the Vienna Exhibition of 1900 and the Turin one of 1902 with Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, her sister Margaret. From 1907 Frances taught enamelling, metalwork and jewellery at the Glasgow School of Art.