Grant, Sir Francis, artist, born in Edinburgh; was educated for the Scottish bar, but took to painting, and became celebrated for his hunting pictures, into which portraits of well-known sportsmen were introduced; also executed portraits of the Queen and Prince Consort on horseback, of Palmerston, Macaulay, and others, and became President of the Royal Academy (1803‒1878).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Grant, Mrs. Anne * Grant, James