John Dibblee Crace

Crace was the eldest of eleven surviving children of John Gregory Crace (1809–1889), interior decorator and author, and his wife, Sarah Jane Hine Langley (1815–1894), the daughter of John Inwood Langley (1790–1874) of Greenwich, a civil servant at the Royal Naval Hospital.

Pugin, the eminent Gothic revival architect, and was head of a decorating firm founded in 1768 by his great-great-grandfather Edward Crace, a coach-decorator and keeper of the king's pictures.

[1] Crace decorated the interior of Two Temple Place, William Waldorf Astor's London estate office, in the style of French Renaissance from about 1892 to 1895.

[1] Considered the acme of 'High Victorianism', he designed decorative schemes for the main entrance of the National Gallery.

[3] Crace decorated the Royal Academy's Fine Rooms, but a painting by William Kent lies beneath his work.