James Ardern Grant (1885–1973),[1] was an English printmaker, painter and teacher, who worked mostly in portraiture.
[4][5] Ann was a talented pianist and together they had a son, the architect Ian Dawson Grant, who was later to become one of the founder members of The Victorian Society.
[6] In London, James Ardern Grant became vice-principal of the Central School of Arts and Crafts and worked for a period teaching at the etching and painting department of the City and Guilds of London Art School.
Grant also became a member of the Chelsea Arts Club and in the 1920s to the 1950s helped organise the famous fancy dress balls at the Albert Hall to raise funds for artists' charities.
Of those portraits, the ones he painted of his family are noteworthy, particularly one of his wife Ann Grant in an English landscape park in top hat and hunting coat; and another of his young son Ian Grant in a bucolic landscape inspired by that of the portrait of Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the preparatory pastel sketch of which was sold at auction in 2001.