Francis William Grant of Grant was Lord Lieutenant of Inverness-shire. The Inverness-shire Militia, of which he was Colonel, was stationed in Edinburgh at the time the portrait was made.
Inverness-shire Militia - Portrait of the Hon. Francis William Grant of Grant, Colonel, by John Kay, Edinburgh, 1804. From Kay's Portraits. Volume II, Plate CXLVIII.
John Kay was born near Edinburgh in 1742. A keen artist from childhood, he was a barber until 1785 when he became a full-time engraver and painter of miniatures. His portraits of Edinburgh characters are vivid and unmistakable.
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