Social Victorians/People/Poynter

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Also Known As[edit | edit source]

  • Family name: Poynter
  • Knighted 1896[1]
  • Baronet Poynter
    • Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Bt. (24 July 1902 – 26 July 1919)[1]
    • Sir Ambrose Macdonald Poynter, 2nd Bt. (26 July 1919 – 1923)[2]
    • Sir Hugh Edward Poynter, 3rd Bt. (1923–1968)[3]

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies[edit | edit source]

Edward John Poynter[edit | edit source]

  • Frederick Leighton
  • James McNeill Whistler[1]
  • George du Maurier's Trilby: "The picture of the old student life in Paris (Sir Edward says) is very faithful, except that there was no 'Trilby.'"[4] (7)

Organizations[edit | edit source]

Edward John Poynter[edit | edit source]

  • Royal Academy
    • Associate (1869)
    • Member (c. 1877)
    • President (1893–1918)[5]
  • Director, National Gallery of British Art (later, the Tate Gallery (1894–1904)[5]
Colored drawing of a seated man holding the tools of a painter in a 19th-century suit without the coat, with grey hair and a moustache and beard, facing 3/4 to his right
"PRA" — Edward Poynter — by "Spy," Vanity Fair 4 March 1897

Timeline[edit | edit source]

1866 August 9,[6] Edward John Poynter and Agnes Macdonald married in a double wedding with her sister Louisa Macdonald and Alfred Baldwin.[7]

1897 July 2, Sir Edward Poynter (#546 on the list of people who were present) attended the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball.

Costume at the Duchess of Devonshire's 2 July 1897 Fancy-dress Ball[edit | edit source]

Sir Edward Poynter was "Notable"[8] "as Titian"[9] at the Duchess of Devonshire's fancy-dress ball. His wife Agnes Macdonald Poynter is not mentioned in any newspaper accounts of the ball, but that does not mean she was not there.

A caricature of Poynter (right) was published in the 4 March 1897 issue of Vanity Fair. By Leslie Ward ("Spy"), the portrait is Number 675 in Vanity Fair's series of "Men of the Day."[10] The title of the image, PRA, may refer to Poynter being the President of the Royal Academy.

Sir Edward John Poynter's portrait of "Susan Margaret (née MacKinnon), Duchess of Somerset as Jane, Queen of England, wife to King Henry VIII and mother to King Edward VI" in her costume for the ball is #261 in the album presented to the Duchess of Devonshire and now in the National Portrait Gallery.[11]

Demographics[edit | edit source]

  • Nationality: British[1]

Residences[edit | edit source]

Family[edit | edit source]

  • Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Bt. (20 March 1836 – 26 July 1919)[1]
  • Agnes Macdonald (1843–1906)[12]
    1. Sir Ambrose Macdonald Poynter, 2nd Bt. (1867–1923)
    2. Sir Hugh Edward Poynter, 3rd Bt. (1882–1968)
    3. [third child][1]

Relations[edit | edit source]

  • Agnes Macdonald's sisters were important in the community of artists (but not apparently in the social networks of the Prince of Wales or the Duchess of Devonshire):
    • Georgiana Macdonald and Edward Burne-Jones married on 9 June 1860.[13]
    • Alice Macdonald and John Lockwood Kipling married in March 1865 (Rudyard Kipling was their son).[7]
    • Writer Louisa Macdonald and Alfred Baldwin married on 2 July 1866.[7]
  • Edward John Poynter's sister was translator Clara Courtenay Bell (1834–1927), whose social network overlapped Poynter's and who had prominence in her own right.[14] (Citing The Oxford History of Literary Translators in English.)

Notes and Questions[edit | edit source]

  1. Sir Edward Poynter was at the ball, so where was Agnes Poynter?

Footnotes[edit | edit source]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Edward Poynter". Wikipedia. 2021-09-04. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Poynter&oldid=1042300438.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poynter.
  2. "Sir Ambrose Macdonald Poynter, 2nd Bt." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p17392.htm#i173913.
  3. "Sir Hugh Edward Poynter, 3rd Bt." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p17392.htm#i173915.
  4. Monkhouse, William Cosmo (1897). Sir Edward J. Poynter, President of the Royal Academy: His Life and Work (in en). J.S. Virtue. https://books.google.com/books?id=7UxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Sir+Edward+Poynter&source=bl&ots=cTue6mBiyZ&sig=ACfU3U0FEaAu24Rvlog0UvoGEgHAfIKqxA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNybipjpHzAhVxAZ0JHTqhDVs4ZBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=Sir%20Edward%20Poynter&f=false.  PP. 1–32. Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=7UxFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Sir+Edward+Poynter&source=bl&ots=cTue6mBiyZ&sig=ACfU3U0FEaAu24Rvlog0UvoGEgHAfIKqxA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiNybipjpHzAhVxAZ0JHTqhDVs4ZBDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=Sir%20Edward%20Poynter. "I. The New President," 1–2. "II. Early Life," 3–11. "III. The Academician," 12–23. "IV. The Professor," 24–29. "V. The Studio," 30–31. "The Works of Sir Edward John Poynter, P.R.A.," 32.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Bt - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-09-21. https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp03642/sir-edward-john-poynter-1st-bt.
  6. "Alfred Baldwin (politician)". Wikipedia. 2021-09-02. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alfred_Baldwin_(politician)&oldid=1042033086.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Baldwin_(politician).
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 "MacDonald sisters". Wikipedia. 2021-08-27. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MacDonald_sisters&oldid=1040966601.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald_sisters.
  8. "Fancy Dress Ball: Unparalleled Splendour." Carlisle Patriot Friday 9 July 1897: 7 [of 8], Col. 4a–b. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000365/18970709/084/0007.
  9. "Ball at Devonshire House." The Times Saturday 3 July 1897: 12, Cols. 1a–4c The Times Digital Archive. Web. 28 Nov. 2015.
  10. "List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1895–1899)". Wikipedia. 2024-01-14. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)_caricatures_(1895%E2%80%931899)&oldid=1195518024.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vanity_Fair_(British_magazine)_caricatures_(1895%E2%80%931899).
  11. "Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball (1897): photogravures by Walker & Boutall after various photographers." 1899. National Portrait Gallery https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?set=515.
  12. "Agnes Macdonald." "Person Page". www.thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21. https://www.thepeerage.com/p17392.htm#i173911.
  13. "Georgiana Burne-Jones". Wikipedia. 2021-07-26. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgiana_Burne-Jones&oldid=1035605835.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiana_Burne-Jones.
  14. "Sir Edward John Poynter (1836-1919), Victorian Art History". www.avictorian.com. Retrieved 2021-09-21. http://www.avictorian.com/Poynter_Edward.html.