GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-78), Scottish portrait painter, fourth son of Francis Grant of Kilgraston, Perthshire, born at Edinburgh, was educated for the bar, but at the age of 24 turned to art. He began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, London, in 1843. He became a fashionable portrait-painter, among his society sitters being Lady Glenlyon, the marchioness of Waterford, Lady Rodney and Mrs. Beauclerk. He painted many of the celebrities of the time, including Scott, Macaulay, Lock hart, Disraeli, Hardinge, Gough, Derby, Palmerston and Russell, his brother Sir J. Hope Grant and his friend Sir Edwin Landseer. In 1842 he was elected A.R.A., and in 1851 R.A. ; in 1866 he was chosen to succeed Sir C. Eastlake as P.R.A. Shortly after his election as president he was knighted. He died on Oct. 5, 1878.