Margaret macdonald mackintosh biography of george michael

The following is a very brief over view, but does put into context the gesso panels Margaret Macdonald created during her life, as well as highlighting some of the major collaborative works she completed with her husband Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

1864 Margaret MacDonald was born on November the 5th in Tipton, near Wolverhampton, England.

Her father John MacDonald was an engineer, born in Glasgow, who had travelled south for work in the mines near the Welsh border and in the Potteries. Her mother, Frances Grove Hardeman, was from Staffordshire, although her father originally came from Glasgow, where his family were partners in the long established law firm of MacDonald, Son and Smith.

Margaret MacDonald had one elder brother, Charles, and two younger brothers, John Stewart and Archibald Campbell, and one younger sister Frances, who was born in 1873.

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