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GRANGER, David, engraver. Practised in London about the beginning of the second quarter of the 17th century. There is by him a 'St. George,' after Raphael, and a companion plate.

GRANGER, Robert, architect. Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He was educated in a charity school, and by his own energy and industry raised himself in the world, and his marriage with a lady of property enabled him to enter into a large building scheme in his native town, much in advance of the provincial street architecture of that day. He also designed and built there the new market, the exchange, the theatre, dispensary, and some other edifices, which were of much merit. His works gave a character to 4-he town, but it is most pro- bable that he was not without assistance in the architectural character of his buildings. He died July 4L 1861, in his 63rd year.

GRANT, William James, history painter. Was born at Hackney in 1829, and in 1844 was admitted into the schools of the Royal Academy. In 1847 he exhi- bited his first work. 'Rabbits/ and in the following year, with nigher aim, 'The Black Prince entertaining the French King after the Battle of Poictiers.' This work was followed, both at the Academy and at the British Institution, by some sacred subjects. In 1852 he exhibited at the Academy a 1 Samson and Delilah/ a work of large size and much pretension; and in 1858 his ' Eugene Beauharnais refusing to give up his Father's Sword/ and • The last Trial of Madame Palissy/ attracted much notice. In 1860 he exhibited ' The Morning of the Duel/ a work of painful interest. His works continued of much promise. He ex- hibited for the last time m 1866, and died on June 2 in that year, aged 37*

GRANVILLE, Mary (Mrs. Delant), amateur. She was born May 14, 1700, and was a descendant of Sir Bevil Gran- ville. She was first married to Mr. Pen- darves, of Roscrow, and after his death, to Dr. Delany, Dean of Down, in 1743. She copied in oil very cleverly many portraits, and some original portraits by her are very good, among them the Duchess of Queens- berry, Priors ' Kitty, beautiful and witty/ She completed a Flora, comprising 980 plants. She was much in favour with George III. and his Queen. She died in 1788. Lady Llanover published her ' Autobiography and Correspondence/ 1862. There is a portrait of her by Opie, R.A., at the Hampton Court Galleries.

G R AN V ILLE,, engraver. Practised

early in the second half of the 18th cen- tury'. He engraved some landscapes after Thomas Smith, of Derby.

GRATTON. Geoboe, subject painter. The Dublin Society awarded to him, in 1807, 100 guineas for the purchase of his

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' Beggar Woman and Child/ painted in the Society's Schools. He exhibited in Dublin again in 1809. In 1812 he was residing in London, and that year exhibited three pictures at the Royal Academy — 'The Guard Room/ ' The Gathering/ and ' Noon- tide.' But he does not again appear as an exhibitor.

GRAVE, Thomas, architect. Practised in London in the reign of Elizabeth, and though his name frequently appears, no reference can be made to his works.

GRAVELOT, Henry, engraver and draftsman. He is known in England by his assumed name of Gravelot. His real name was D' Anville, and he was the brother of the well-known geographer D' Anville. He was born in Paris, March 26 ; 1699. After receiving his art education m that city, he obtained employment in the suite of the French ambassador at Rome, but loitered at Lyons on his way, and then re- turned to Paris, where he spent in dissipa- tion the money given to him for his journey. He then went with the governor to St. Domingo, at that time a French colony, and assisted in making a map of the island. A ship in which a remittance was made to him by his father was lost. Sickness and trouble followed, and he got back to Paris destitute. He tried painting for his sup-

?ort, and afterwards designing and etching, n 1733 he was invited to England by Claude Du Bosc to assist him in the plates for Picart's 'Religious Ceremonies, and was on his arrival here suspected as a spy.

He was at once employed by the book- sellers, and gained some repute by a * Treat- ise on Perspective ' which he published. He was the hrst who noticed the talent of Gainsborough, R.A., and taking him as his pupil, he employed him in designing the ornamental homers to Houbraken's en- graved portraits. In 1745, on the breaking out of the war, he returned to France, where he chiefly employed himself in drawing, but after a time was induced to come again to England, and assisted Hogarth in some of his early plates. He drew for Vertue the * Monuments of the Kings/ and was also engaged in Gloucestershire in drawing the churches and antiquities of the county. He both designed and etched the plates for Theobald's ' Shakespeare. 7 He is also known as one of the earliest caricaturists — the at- tacks on Sir Robert Walpole and Lord Bur- lington, * The State Coach/ ' The Funeral of Faction/ and some others are by him. He attempted small compositions and conver- sation-pieces, and is said to have been a designer by choice, an engraver by necessity. He for a time kept a drawing school m the Strand. During a second residence here of several years he had saved some money, and in 1754 he returned to settle

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