Lot 702: Estimate £300 - £500
A Two Day Selected Fine Art & Antiques Auction to include Silver & Jewellery, Thursday 25th April 2024 - Friday 26th April 2024

Frances Macdonald (1914 - 2002) 'Venice', oil on canvas, signed and dated 1948, label verso, framed, 40cm by 50cm

Frances Macdonald was a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and teacher, born in Wallasey, Cheshire, where she attended the Art School, 1930–4, under William Green and Gordon MacPherson, then Royal College of Art, 1934–8. She married the painter Leonard Appelbee. A portrait of Stanley Morison in Oliver Simon’s magazine Signature led to Macdonald becoming an Official War Artist, 1940–6, her painting of the building of a Mulberry Harbour being accepted by the Tate Gallery. Also worked for the Pilgrim Trust’s Recording Britain project. Macdonald taught at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art, 1946–8; at Beckenham, 1957–69; Byam Shaw School, 1963–4; and Ruskin School, Oxford, 1964. She showed at Leicester Galleries, Wildenstein, the Festival of Britain 60 Paintings for ’51 show and elsewhere