Duncan Grant

All of his long life Duncan Grant was associated with the Bloomsbury Group. He was a cousin of Lytton Strachey, the biographer and historian; and from 1915 until her death in 1961, he lived with Vanessa Bell, the artist and elder sister of Virginia Woolf. Although Grant was a convinced homosexual, the deep alliance he formed with Bell sustained them both. They established households and studios, most notably at Charleston, a

Georgian farmhouse in Sussex that became a celebrated meeting place for the Bloomsbury group. Grant was trained in a conventional manner at the Westminster School of Art and later at the Slade School of Art. Through his friendship with Roger Fry and Clive Bell and the influence of the two remarkable Post-Impressionist exhibitions organized by them in 1910 and 1912, he developed a lifelong commitment to modern French painting.

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