Duncan Grant
(1885-1978), ArtistSitter associated with 31 portraits
Artist of 9 portraits
Painter and decorative artist. Born in Rothiemurchus, Scotland, 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.
Explore the portrait of Duncan Grant by Stephen Tomlin (NPG 6889) from all angles
by Duncan Grant
oil on canvas, circa 1909
NPG 5131
by Lafayette
matte bromide print, 7 February 1910
NPG P1293
by Stephen Tomlin
bronze head, 1924
NPG 6889
by Thomas Fall
albumen cabinet card, circa 1895
NPG x13103
by Thomas Fall
albumen cabinet card, circa 1895
NPG x13135
Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, July 1915
NPG x140432
Lady Ottoline Morrell; Maria Huxley (née Nys); Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; Vanessa Bell
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
Roger Fry; Clive Bell; Duncan Grant; Lytton Strachey; Saxon Arnold Sydney-Turner; Vanessa Bell
by Unknown photographer
bromide copy print, circa 1916
NPG Ax160974
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
enlarged snapshot print on card folder, 1922
NPG x26568
Lytton Strachey; Duncan Grant; (Arthur) Clive Bell
by Vanessa Bell
enlarged snapshot print, 1922
NPG x21199
Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG x141318
Jean de Menasce; Vanessa Bell; 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; Duncan Grant with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141317
Simon Bussy; Vanessa Bell; Duncan Grant
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1922
NPG Ax141318
Related People
- Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell) (daughter)
- Ethel Isabel Grant (née McNeil) (mother)
- Sir John Peter Grant (grandfather)
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