In June 1910 Grant exhibited with the Friday Club at the Alpine Club Gallery. But very irregular as my visits were, they became more and more a habit, and I think they soon became frequent enough to escape notice.' The maid told Virginia "that Mr Grant gets in everywhere". Grant would later recall: 'a close friendship sprang up between Adrian Stephen and myself and I had only to tap on the window to be let in. A few doors away, at 29 Fitzroy Square, lived Adrian and Virginia Stephen (later Virginia Woolf). In November 1909, Grant moved to 21 Fitzroy Square, where he occupied two rooms on the second floor of the building on the west side of the square. Duncan Grant in London ĭuncan Grant and John Maynard Keynes c. In the summer, with an introduction from Simon Bussy, Grant visited Matisse himself, then living at Clamart, Paris. In 1909, Grant visited Michael and Gertrude Stein in Paris and saw their collection that included paintings by, among others, Picasso and Matisse. A year later, the pair would share rooms on Belgrave Road. In 1908, Grant painted a portrait of John Maynard Keynes, who he had met the previous year, while the two were on holiday in Orkney. In January 1907, and again in the summer of 1908, Grant spent a term at the Slade School of Art. During this period, he visited the Musée du Luxembourg and saw, among other paintings, the Caillebotte bequest of French Impressionists. From 1906, thanks to a gift of £100 from an aunt, Grant spent a year in Paris studying at the Académie de La Palette, Jacques-Émile Blanche's school. Grant was introduced to Vanessa Bell (then Vanessa Stephen) by Pippa Strachey at the Friday Club in the autumn of 1905. Jean de Menasce Vanessa Bell (née Stephen) Duncan Grant Eric Siepmann, 1922 Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938), vintage snapshot print/NPG Ax141298. On his return, at the advice of Simon Bussy, Grant made a copy of the Angel musicians in Piero's Nativity in the National Gallery, London. Grant also made a study of the Portrait of Federigo da Montefeltro, one half of the diptych by Piero della Francesca in the Uffizi and was greatly impressed by the frescoes of Piero in the Basilica of San Francesco, Arezzo. In the winter of 1904–5, Grant visited Italy where, commissioned by Harry Strachey, he made copies of part of the Masaccio frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel, in the Church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence. While at Westminster, Grant was encouraged in his studies by Simon Bussy, a French painter and lifelong friend of Matisse, who went on to marry Dorothy Strachey. In 1902, Grant was enrolled by his aunt at Westminster School of Art he attended for the next three years. Lady Strachey was able to persuade Grant's parents that he should be allowed to pursue an education in art. When Grant was younger, he accompanied Lady Strachey to "picture Sunday" which gave him the opportunity to meet with eminent painters. Art education and European influence įrom about 1899/1900 to 1906, Grant lived with his aunt and uncle, Sir Richard and Lady Strachey and their children. He attended St Paul's School, London (as a boarder for two terms), 1899–1901, where he was awarded several art prizes. During this period, Grant spent his school holidays at Hogarth House, Chiswick, with his grandmother, Lady Grant. Along with Rupert Brooke, Grant attended Hillbrow School, Rugby, 1894–99, where he received lessons from an art teacher and became interested in Japanese prints. During this period, Grant was educated by his governess, Alice Bates. Between 18, the family lived in India and Burma, returning to England every two years. Grant was born on 21 January 1885, to Major Bartle Grant and Ethel Isabel McNeil in Rothiemurchus, Aviemore, Scotland. Grant was also the first cousin twice removed of John Grant, 13th Earl of Dysart (b. He was a grandson of Sir John Peter Grant, 12th Laird of Rothiemurchus, KCB, GCMG, and sometime Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major in the army, and much of his early childhood was spent in India and Burma. Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – ) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets, and costumes.
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