Sir Francis Grant PRA
Born 18 January 1803
Died 5 October 1878
Active: 1842 - 1878
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Painter
Born in Edinburgh or, according to some sources, Perthshire
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
7 November 1842 - 10 February 1851
Elected RA in 1851.
Elected PRA Royal Academy of Arts
1 February 1866 - 5 October 1878
Died in 1878.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
10 February 1851 - 1 February 1866
Elected president in 1866.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominator of George Gammon Adams
24 May 1864
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1867.
Citing this record
'Sir Francis Grant PRA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1213785080, accessed 19 Feb 2020]
