| Description | List of portraits which Alexander Macdonald of Kepplestone at his death had still intended to collect, labelled 'found in pocket-book', with notes of progress made on them by Hope Macdonald, his widow, including Tom Faed, Frank Holl (done), F. Pickersgill (done), J.M. Whistler (tried), Holman Hunt (tried), J.S. Sargent (done), Edwin Long (refused, and died of influenza in 1891), Hugh Cameron (refused), W. MacTaggart (done), H. Woods (done), Van Haanen (done), Pearson (done), Calderon (agreed), T. Brock (done), J.R. Herbert (died), E.A. Abbey ('did nothing'), Burne Jones (agreed to let Millais paint him but Mrs. Macdonald did not ask Millais), G.T. Doo (died before Pettie could paint him), and Sidney Cooper (done). Note of her own additions: J.L. Gerome, Stanhope A. Forbes, E.A. Waterlow, R. Norman Shaw, Vicat Cole, Adrian Stokes, A.D. Reid, and J.W. Waterhouse. 1884 - 1892 |