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See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

FRANCIS

See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• SIR FRANCIS GRANT (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

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

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