GRANT, SIR FRANCIS

GRANT, SIR FRANCIS
   artist, born in Edinburgh; was educated for the Scottish bar, but took to painting, and became celebrated for his hunting pictures, into which portraits of well-known sportsmen were introduced; also executed portraits of the Queen and Prince Consort on horseback, of Palmerston, Macaulay, and others, and became President of the Royal Academy (1803-1878).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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