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 ZUC torical subjects in oil, while in Italy. He travelled in Italy with the Brothers Adam, made for them a number of water-colour drawings, and was brought by them to London, and decorated several of their buildings. He painted ceilings at Buckingham House (now pulled down), Osterley Park, Caen Wood, and Luton, and decorated a gallery for the Duke of Northumberland. He painted also easel pictures; and in 1770 he was elected an associate of the Academy, and was an exhibitor only on three or four occasions, of views—ruins of ancient temples and works of that class. Several of his works are engraved. In 1781 he married Angelica Kauflhian. In the same year he went with her to Rome, where he resided till his death in December 1795.

ZUCCHI,, engraver. Brother of the above. Practised for several years in London, and engraved many of the works of Angelica Kaunmau.

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The recent and lamented death of Sir F. Grant has necessitated the insertion of the following supplementary notice:— GRANT, Sir, P.R.A., portrait-painter. Was born in Edinburgh in 1803, and was the fourth son of Mr. Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire. He was educated at Harrow School, and for a time studied law, but his tastes led him to prefer art, and having spent his patrimony he resolved to take to it as a profession, and his love of field sports gave it its first direction. In 1834 ne became an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and early made himself a reputation by his picture of ' The Meet of Her Majesty's Stag-hounds,' painted for Lord Chesterfield, exhibited both in London and Paris, ana ' The Melton Hunt/ purchased by the Duke of Wellington. In these works the figures are of a small size, yet as portraits they are excellent and characteristic, while the animals are well drawn, and the landscape backgrounds, though treated with great truthfulness of detail, yet in good keeping with the figures. In 1842 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, and began to devote himself more especially to life-sized portraits in oil, painting many of the beautiful women, and most of the distinguished men, of his time. Among these portraits, as of marked excellence, may be named those of 'The Marchioness of Waterford/. 'Lady Rodney/ 'Mrs. Beauclerk,' the painter's own daughter, 'Mrs. Markham,' ' Lord Macaulay/ 'Lord Derby,' ' Mr Disraeli,' ' Lord Russell,' ' Lord Hardinge,' and that of ' General Sir Hope Grant,' his distinguished brother playing the violoncello. In 1851, on the occasion of four vacancies (an unusual occurrence), he was elected a full member of the Academy; and in 1866, on the death of Sir Charles Eastlake, and on Sir Edwin Landseer's declining the distinction, he was chosen President and received the honour of knighthood. The University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1870. He continued to practise his profession to the last, though amid much suffering in his later years, and exhibited five pictures in the Academy Exhibition of 1878. He died rather suddenly on Saturday, October 5, 1878, at Melton Mowbray, and was buried in the Cemetery there on the following Saturday, his family having decided to decline the offer of a public funeral in St. Paul's, where his brother members desired to inter him. He was twice married, was of a kindly nature and handsome person, and perhaps more fitted for the duties of the office he held by his natural qualities than by his artistic ones. He succeeded better in his female portraits, than in giving the sterner characteristics of men, out his surest fame will rest with those hunting scenes, which he loved and depicted so welL

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CLAY AND TAYLOR, PRINTERS, BUNGAY.