Grant Sir Francis

Grant, Sir Francis (1803-1878), a portrait painter, was born at Edinburgh. He prepared for the Bar, but at 24 turned his attention to painting. In 1843 he exhibited at the Royal Academy, and was very successful in hunting scenes; but he abandoned this line for portrait-painting, and had many celebrities, among them being Scott, Macaulay, Disraeli, Derby, Palmerston, Russell, and Landseer. He became A.R.A. in 1842, R.A. in 1857, P.R.A. in succession to Sir C. Eastlake, in 1866.