Duncan Grant (1885-1978), Artist
Sitter associated with 28 portraits
Artist of 9 portraits
Painter and decorative artist. Grant studied at Westminster School of Art and in Paris with Jacques-Emile Blanche. In 1909 he shared rooms in Fitzroy Square with Maynard Keynes, and struck up a close friendship with his neighbours Virginia Stephen (later Woolf) and her brother Adrian. These connections provided Grant's entry to the Bloomsbury circle. Profoundly influenced by Roger Fry's two Post-Impressionist exhibitions in 1910 and 1912-13, he gravitated away from realistic depiction, experimenting increasingly with a non-literal use of colour. Grant was a co-director of Fry's Omega Workshop and was celebrated for his designs for decorative schemes and textiles.
by Lafayette (Lafayette Ltd)
matte bromide print, 7 February 1910
NPG P1293
by Stephen Tomlin
bronze head, 1924
On display in Room 31 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6889
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
oil on canvas, circa 1943
NPG 6718
by Thomas Fall
albumen cabinet card, circa 1895
NPG x13103
by Thomas Fall
albumen cabinet card, circa 1895
NPG x13135
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
NPG Ax140432
Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Lady Ottoline Morrell; Philip Edward Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys)
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
NPG Ax140433
Group including Duncan Grant and Mark Gertler
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1916
NPG Ax140478
Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; (Arthur) Clive Bell
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1922
NPG x26568
Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; (Arthur) Clive Bell
by Vanessa Bell (née Stephen)
enlarged snapshot print, 1922
NPG x21199
Jean de Menasce; Vanessa Bell (née Stephen); Duncan Grant; Eric Siepmann
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141298
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141303
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141304
Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
possibly by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141306
Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell (née Stephen); Duncan Grant with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141317
Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell (née Stephen); Duncan Grant
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141318
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141360
Gilbert Spencer; Lord Henry Cavendish-Bentinck; Duncan Grant; Raymond Mortimer
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1930
NPG Ax143163
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1930
NPG Ax143164
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1930
NPG Ax143169
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1930
NPG Ax143165
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1930
NPG Ax143167
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1930
NPG Ax143168
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1967
NPG x14087
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, 7 June 1968
NPG x166064
by Godfrey Argent
bromide print, photomontage, 7 June 1968
NPG x88049
All paintings by this artist on the BBC Your Paintings website
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