Duncan Grant
Duncan Grant was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group and along with his partner, Vanessa Bell, her sister Virginia Woolf and his brief loves Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, defined the British arts world of the pre-war period. This mantel was taken up by a younger generation of post-war Pop artists, including David Hockney, who was given early support and encouragement from Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 5th Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, and husband of Lindy Guinness. Lord Dufferin was co-owner of the Kasmin Gallery, which opened in 1963 and showed the works of Hockney and Lucian Freud, who was married briefly to Lord Dufferin’s sister, Caroline Blackwood. After their own marriage in 1964, Lord and Lady Dufferin became central figures of the London art scene in the 1960s. www.whytes.ie
