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When Duncan Grant celebrated his birthday on 21 January, 1914, his mother told him he was 28. "I thought I was 29," he told Maynard Keynes. "So I have a whole year to spare!" Though his mother was ...
21 de jan. de 2021 · Duncan Grant. 1922, vintage snapshot print by Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873–1938) Like previous and future lairds, Sir John found the Doune a mixed blessing, a financial burden not always mitigated by the income from the estate. When he died, unpaid debts removed almost one-third of the value of the house and its estate.
Duncan Grant was born Rothiemurchus, Inverness in Scotland. His childhood was spent in India, he returned to Britain in 1893. His parents had hoped he would follow his father into the army, but instead he took up painting at the encouragement of the French painter, Simon Bussy. Grant enrolled at the Westminster School of Art.
Duncan Grant (1885–1978) (b Rothiemurchus, nr. Aviemore, 21 Jan. 1885; d Aldermaston, Berkshire, 8 May 1978). British painter and designer. Through the writer Lytton Strachey (his cousin) he became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, and he was also familiar with avant-garde circles in Paris (he met Matisse in 1909 and Picasso soon afterwards ...
20 de set. de 2022 · Some of the drawings were based on Grant’s then boyfriend, the writer David Garnett, who lived with Grant and Bell at Charleston for a time – and later married Grant and Bell’s daughter. “Untitled Drawing” by Duncan Grant, circa 1946 to 1959.
The youngest and also the longest-lived of ‘Old Bloomsbury’, Duncan Grant grew up in the long shadow of the trials of Oscar Wilde and survived to witness the emergence of the modern gay movement in the early 1970s. A series of photographs of him taken around 1912 by another slightly older childhood prodigy, the American photographer Alvin ...
31 de dez. de 2023 · Duncan James Corrowr Grant nasceu em Rothiemurchus, Escócia, em 21 de janeiro de 1885. Ele era filho do major Bartle Grant e de sua esposa, Ethel. Quando menino, passou vários anos na Índia, onde seu pai estava de plantão. Mais tarde, ele foi educado na St. Paul’s School, em Londres; na Westminster School of Art e na Slade School of Art.
