Duncan Grant (1885-1978)

When Duncan Grant's parents moved to Twickenham in the early 1920s Grant took advantage of his visits to them to draw and paint what he called 'the western suburbs' which he found 'full of romance'. He delighted in the houses and villas along the Thames as much as the church and streets of Twickenham (Boats at Twickenham , 1926, Birmingham Art Gallery). The Palladian Marble Hill House was a particular favourite, which he has drawn here during one of his frequent war-time visits to his then widowed mother living nearby.
R.S.