The Defense; and The Loss

Gregor Grey was the son of Charles Grey, RHA (1808-1892), a portrait and landscape painter who was born in Greenock, Scotland. He was born in Dublin and had fourteen brothers and a sister. Among his artistic brothers who also painted were Alfred, Charles Malcolm, James, and Edwin Landseer Grey. The work of his brother Alfred Grey, RHA (1845-1926), was so admired by Queen Victoria that she had him taken specially to the Scottish Highlands to paint a number of her favourite views around Mar Lodge.

Gregor Grey exhibited 116 works at the RHA between 1877 and 1911. In 1893, he exhibited one entitled 'Too Late', no. 73, which may represent the present work currently entitled 'The Loss'.