Duncan Grant

by Frances Spalding

This is a biography of the well-known British painter, Duncan Grant. He was a central member of Bloomsbury, but he also extended far beyond it, into every level of English society. Spalding sheds light on his love affairs with Lytton Strachey and Maynard Keynes, and on his tempestuous relationship with Vanessa Bell, with whom he lived at Charleston, and had a daughter, Angelica.

Genres: Biography, Art, Nonfiction, History

585 pages, Hardcover

First published June 11, 1997

About the author

Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL (née Crabtree) is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of The Burlington Magazine.

Reviews

[Karen-Leigh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A wonderful biography of a fascinating man who drew people like flies to honey all his life. His life intersected with almost every famous person for close on a century. He was much loved by many and his works, so prolific and variable, live on.

[Abby Morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

genuinely, im obsessed with this man

[Matthew Shaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive biography of a bohemian member of the Bloomsbury Group.