Although Grosvenor Square can never have been considered a home of artists, one painter - Sir George Beaumont - did live here at No. 29 until 1827, the year in which he died.
Although a painter - and represented as such in the National Gallery, which he helped to found - he is chiefly remembered as a connoisseur and art patron.
Readers of Haydon's Diary and Reminiscences will be familiar with his name, and the dispute that that extraordinary man, who seemed to have been destined to fail in art and to succeed so admirably in chronicling his failures, had with him.
