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In 1924 John Maynard Keynes and David Garnett persuaded the celebrated artist Duncan Grant to sit for this portrait bust – ‘what they call being immortalised in bronze’, Grant wrote to a friend. It was cast in bronze the following year; one cast was bought by Keynes and is now in the National Portrait Gallery, and the other, the present work, was acquired by Garnett. It is the only known sculpted likeness of Grant to have been taken in his lifetime.
In 1924 John Maynard Keynes and David Garnett persuaded the celebrated artist Duncan Grant to sit for this portrait bust – ‘what they call being immortalised in bronze’, Grant wrote to a friend. It was cast in bronze the following year; one cast was bought by Keynes and is now in the National Portrait Gallery, and the other, the present work, was acquired by Garnett. It is the only known sculpted likeness of Grant to have been taken in his lifetime.
