C.J. Grant

[5] The exact nature of the relationship between the two artists is difficult to determine but it seems likely that it came to an end by the spring of 1831, as by that time Grant had begun openly pirating copies of Heath's work for other publishers.

Signor Paulo strenuously denied the accusation and wrote back to say that he had only agreed to read Grant's script out of respect for a mutual friend and that he found it "totally destitute of the indispensable requisites of entertainments of that description.

takes this opportunity of informing the inhabitants of Paris, and its vicinity, that he has no connexion [sic] in his capacity as artist, with one Gabriel Shire Tregear, publisher, of London, for some time past, and solemnly prays he may never again."

[2] The London census returns record him living in shared accommodation with an older woman who was likely to have been his mother in a small courtyard located just off Gray's Inn Road in the year 1841.

He may also have been the Charles John Grant who is listed as a 'lithographic printer' working on nearby St Chad's Row in a London trade directory of 1839, but if that was the case then venture was evidently short-lived as the address was occupied by a new owner less than four years later.

[4] This would be consistent with the speculative claim made by one historian who wrote that the drying up of his career meant that Grant was likely to have come "to a miserable and poverty-stricken end in Dickens's London.