Hunting
John, Henry and Francis Grant by John Ferneley, 1823. Courtesy of Leicestershire County Council Museums Collection.
Kilgraston became well known for its horse stud and the third Laird kept an unique Stud Book with paintings or sketches, and descriptions, of all the horses.
While there were many opportunities in Perthshire and neighbouring counties for the men in the family to indulge in hunting, Frank Grant (later Sir Francis Grant P.R.A.) kept numerous horses at Melton Mowbray where he indulged in hunting and socialising. There he met John Ferneley, one of the foremost equestrian artists of the time. They collaborated on various paintings, but Ferneley also painted several of Frank. On one occasion his brothers, Henry and John, joined Frank and Ferneley painted a handsome picture of the three brothers. It remained in the family until the 1960s and it is now in the collection of the Melton Carnegie Museum.