Chevening, Kent, and a copy is in the National Portrait Gallery, London. He also executed busts of Walter Scott (1831), Fanny Kemble, Sir David Baird. and James Gillespie Graham. Among his ideal works are 'A Girl and a Carrier Pigeon,’ 1835, and 'Eurydice,’ 1849. His 'Ulysses recognised by his dog,’ shown in the Paris Exhibition of 1855, was much admired, and became the property of Lord Kilmorey. He died in Rome. Several sculptors trained under him, including William Brodie. Principal Works Whilst Macdonald made statues of classical and mythological figures, all his portraiture was in the form of busts. James Gillespie Graham (1827) The Duke of Atholl, Blair Atholl, (1827) Robert Phillips, (1829) Earl of Errol (1832) Viscountess Canning, Highcliffe Castle (1838) Lord Alexander Russell, Woburn Abbey (1839) Lady Ebury, Apsley House (1839) Lord Charles Montagu, Kimbolton Castle (1840) Sir Henry Taylor, National Portrait Gallery, London (1843) Lord Compton, Castle Ashby (1843) Mary Somerville, (1844) The Duke of Cambridge, Windsor Castle (1846) The Hon Mrs Sidney Herbert, Wilton House (1848) Statue of Hyacinthus, Windsor Castle (1852) Duke of Northumberland (1853) Earl Stanhope, Chevening House, Kent (1854) Bacchante at the Bath, Mount Stewart (1856) Venus at the Bath, Mount Stewart (1856) Watts Russell, Ilam Church, Staffordshire (1863) Earl Stanhope, Chevening, Kent (n.d.) George Combe, Scottish National Portrait Gallery (n.d.) Euphemia Murray, Perth Museum (n.d.) In Literature Letitia Elizabeth Landon published her poem Lines. Supposed to be the Prayer of the Supplicating Nymph in Mr. Lawrence Macdonald’s Exhibition of Sculptures in the Literary Gazette in 1831. References List of works selected from the Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660–1851, by Rupert Gunnis Attribution Scottish sculptors Scottish male sculptors British emigrants to Italy 1799 births 1878 deaths People from Perth and Kinross Alumni of the Edinburgh College of Art Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome