William James Grant (1829 – 2 June 1866) was an English painter. Juliet and the Friar Grant

Life

He was born in Hackney, east London. He attended

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's lectures, and won two prizes from the

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. In 1844 he became a student of the

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, and in 1847, while still a student, exhibited his first picture, ''Boys with Rabbits''. Grant died on 2 June 1866, at the age of 37.

Works

In 1848 Grant showed ''Edward the Black Prince entertaining the French King after the Battle of Poitiers'' at the

. During the next few years he painted mainly religious subjects, such as ''Christ casting out the Devils at Gadara'' (1850) and ''Samson and Delilah'' (1852). In 1853 he reverted to historical subjects, and among his later pictures were ''Mozart's Requiem'' (1854), ''Scene from the Early Life of Queen Elizabeth'' (1857), ''Eugene Beauharnais refusing to give up the Sword of his Father'' (1858), ''The Morning of the Duel'' (1860), and ''The Last Relics of Lady Jane Grey'' (1861). In 1866 he exhibited ''The Lady and the Wasp'' and ''Reconciliation''. A picture of ''The Widow's Cruse of Oil'', painted for a private commission, was exhibited at

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. Grant also executed drawings in red and black chalk, mostly illustrations to poetry.

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* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, William James 1829 births 1866 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters People from Hackney Central Painters from London 19th-century English male artists