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Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

Aliases: Duncan James Corrour Grant; Duncan James Corrowr Grant

Professions: Painter; Commercial artist; Lithographer

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    DUNCAN GRANT 1885-1978

    DUNCAN GRANT 1885-1978

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    Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

    Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

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    Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

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    Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

    Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

Duncan Grant Biography

(b Rothiemurchus, Inverness, 21 Jan 1885; d Aldermaston, Berks, 9 May 1978). English painter and designer. From 1887 to 1894 he was in India and Burma, where his father was serving as a soldier. After attending a preparatory school in Rugby, he was sent to St Paul’s School, London (1899–1901), where it was intended that he should be educated for the army. As he showed no interest in this he was allowed to move in 1902 to Westminster School of Art in London, where he remained for over two years. While there he was encouraged by Simon Bussy (1870–1954), a French painter who knew Matisse, and who was engaged to Grant’s cousin Dorothy Strachey. In the winter of 1904–5 Grant visited Italy, where he copied the frescoes by Masaccio and Masolino in the Brancacci Chapel, S Maria del Carmine, Florence, and was also much impressed by the work of Piero della Francesca. In 1906–7 he studied at La Palette art school in Paris under Jacques-Emile Blanche, before visiting Italy again. His early work of this period reflects his study of works in the Louvre, as in Still-life on Table (1906; priv. col., see 1959 exh. cat., pl. 2), which shows the influence of Chardin. He also spent two terms at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1907–8).

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