Printmaker: Charles Lewis, Pub: Hodgson & Graves, Date: C.1839, Artist: Sir Francis Grant was a Scottish portrait painter, who painted Queen Victoria and many aristocratic and political figures of the day. He served as President of the Royal Academy and acquired a reputation as a fine painter of "sporting" subjects, in 1834 exhibited at the Royal Academy - a picture called Melton Breakfast (which was engraved by Charles G. Lewis). Grant acquired a reputation for painting Sporting subjects such as this famous annual Fox Hunt. The Painting was engraved by Charles Lewis. Originally exhibited in 1839 Royal academy. The Melton Breakfast depicts eleven British Gentlemen having breakfast after the hunt in the home of Lord Alvanley Melton Mowbray and are identified by name at the bottom of the engraving. Originally published in London in 1839 by Hodgson & Graves.
S: 20.5"x 28"
F: 32" x 40"
