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there. Pope Leo X wrote him asking for reproductions of his paintings so he might see more of his work. And by the simplest, least 
art-knowing layman Grant's works are understood and loved.
He had a lesson he taught his students and all painters. He urged and insisted that they paint themselves into their pictures. Their interpretations of a scene or a model, their style, their manner, alone could make a picture important. And again it was he who lived the truth of the thought. His personality, as it touched and moulded the subject before him, shows in all of his mature work. This element, this nameless ability to interpret in just his own way, this most personal faculty that was buried deep in his own soul is the factor that makes Grant's painting great.