Duncan Grant (1885-1978) was a painter connected to the Bloomsbury Group. He was openly homosexual but for most of his life shared a house and his life in Sussex (Charleston) with another painter, Vanessa Bell, the sister of Virginia Woolf. He was the lover of John Maynard Keynes, the economist. He fathered one child with Vanessa Bell, Angelica Bell, who later married David Garnett, who had been one of her father's lovers (see above). The painting is a self portrait.
