MacDonald sisters

The MacDonald sisters were four English women of part-Scottish descent born during the 19th century, notable for their marriages to well-known men.

Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa were the daughters of Reverend George Browne Macdonald (1805–1868), a Wesleyan Methodist minister,[1] and Hannah Jones (1809–1875).

"[3][4][5] George Macdonald was relocated by the Methodist Conference to a Birmingham circuit following the birth of Alice, and it was here that Georgie was born on 28 July 1840.

[8] She and her sister Georgiana received attention from prospective suitors who were friends of her brother and members of the Birmingham Set.

[2] She eventually married the future president of the Royal Academy Edward Poynter during 1866 in a double wedding with her quieter sister Louisa.

She, Jane Morris and her sisters Louisa and Georgiana are thought to be the inspiration for figures of Burne-Jones' 1864 painting Green Summer.