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SIR FRANCIS GRANT (1803-1878)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:FRANCIS See also:GRANT (1803-1878)  , See also:English portrait-painter, See also:fourth son.of See also:Francis See also:Grant of Kilgraston, See also:Perthshire, was See also:born at See also:Edinburgh in 1803 . He was educated for the See also:bar, but at the See also:age of twenty-four he began at Edinburgh systematically to study the practice of See also:art . On completing a course of instruction he removed to See also:London, and as See also:early as 1843 exhibited at the Royal See also:Academy . At the beginning of his career he utilized his sporting experiences by See also:painting See also:groups of huntsmen, horses and hounds, such as the " Meet of H.M . Staghounds " and the " Melton See also:Hunt "; but his position in society gradually made him a fashionable portrait-painter . In drapery he had the See also:taste of a connoisseur, and rendered the minutest details of See also:costume with felicitous accuracy . In See also:female See also:portraiture he achieved considerable success, although rather in depicting the high-born See also:graces and See also:external characteristicsthan the true See also:personality . Among his portraits of this class may be mentioned See also:Lady H20 . SiO2 . Ti02 . Al203 . FeO .

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In his portraits of generals and sportsmen he proved himself more equal to his subjects than in those of states-men and men of letters . He painted, many of the See also:

principal celebrities of the See also:time, including See also:Scott, See also:Macaulay, See also:Lockhart, Disraeli, See also:Hardinge, See also:Gough, See also:Derby, See also:Palmerston and See also:Russell, his See also:brother See also:Sir J . See also:Hope Grant and his friend Sir See also:Edwin See also:Landseer . From the first his career was rapidly prosperous . In 1842 he was elected an See also:associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1851 an Academician; and in 1866 he was chosen to succeed Sir C . See also:Eastlake in the See also:post of See also:president, for which his See also:chief recommendations were his social distinction, tact, urbanity and friendly and liberal See also:consideration of his brother artists . Shortly after his See also:election as president he was knighted, and in 1870 the degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him by the university of See also:Oxford . He died on the 5th of See also:October 1878 .

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