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Surname	MacDonald	Alternative Surname
First Name	John	Initial of Surname	M
Year of Birth/Baptism		Flourished	1844-1858
Year of Death
Biographical Details	He was the older brother of Lawrence MacDonald and assisted him in Rome. He was mentioned - as ‘Mr John Mcdonald the sculptor’ - in The Morning Post in 1858 (Wednesday, April 30, 1858, p.6), where it recorded that he had just bought two historic portraits of the Stuart ‘King’ James III and his wife Maria Clementina Sobieski from the Tucci family in Sezza, near Velletri, Italy. The newspaper recommended the works should be bought for the National Portrait Gallery. This suggests that MacDonald was also working as a dealer. Literary References: Woodward 1977 (vol 1, pt 2), 126; ODNB (Greenwood)