ASCRIBED TO SIR FRANCIS GRANT (1803-1878) A portrait of Sir Hope Grant

depicted standing three-quarter length, in full military dress uniform with sword and hat, oil on canvas, 35cm x 24cm 

General Sir James Hope Grant, GCB (22 July 1808 – 7 March 1875) was a British Army officer. He served in the First Opium War, First Anglo-Sikh War, Indian Mutiny of 1857, and Second Opium War. Sir Francis Grant PRA (18 January 1803 – 5 October 1878) was a Scottish portrait painter who painted Queen Victoria and many distinguished British aristocratic and political figures. He also served as President of the Royal Academy. Hope and Francis were brothers, the sons of Francis Grant, Laird of Kilgraston, near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire.

Provenance: A label verso stating that this painting was "left to Hope Brooke, Boddlington House, Byfield"