Biography
Born 1885 in Liverpool, Grant is known as both painter and printmaker, and latterly as well regarded teacher.
Mostly proficient and regarded as a portrait artist, Grant studied a the Liverpool school of Art (LSoA) and then the Academie Julian in Paris before returning to England, subsequently taking up a teaching post at Taught at LSoA until his marriage when he moved with his new wife to London.
Grant had a successful teaching career in London, becoming the Vice Principal of Central School of Arts and Crafts as well as for a period teaching both etching and painting at the City and Guilds of London Art School; it was during these years Grant became close friends with many well known and regarded artists such as John Lavery, Oswald Birley and Frank Dobson.
Throughout his career Grant’s paintings and printmaking works were shown at the Royal Academy of Arts, the New English Art Club and the Chenil Gallery.
James Ardern Grant died in 1973 aged eighty six, leaving works in many well known public collections, including the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.