Daniel Gran

The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is painting. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are St. Work by Daniel Gran is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Städel Museum, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest and National Museum in Warsaw.

• Name — Daniel Gran • Born — 22 May 1694 • Birthplace — Vienna • Died — 16 April 1757 • Place of death — Sankt Pölten • Field — Painting • Training — Sebastiano Ricci (Venice, Italy) and Francesco Solimena (Naples, Italy) • Movement — Baroque • Works — St Anna's Church's frescoes (Vienna), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Prunksaal's frescoes • Illustration — Prunksaal: allegory of peace and heaven. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730. • Illustration — Prunksaal: allegory of war and law. Ceiling painting made by Daniel Gran (1694-1757) finished in 1730.

Gran was one of the sons of Hofkochs Kaiser Leopold I. He was sponsored by the House of Schwarzenberg, which helped finance his studies and travels in Italy, where he studied primarily with Sebastiano Ricci in Venice and Francesco Solimena in Naples. His works can be noted for a wavering between Venetian influence in coloring and Neapolitan influence in composition. In addition to the Princely House of Schwarzenberg, he also painted for the House of Habsburg; 1727 he was appointed court painter. From 1732, he used the title "Daniel le Grand," and from 1736, with the predicate "della Torre." In the absence of documentation, the verifiability of his nobility in the Registry of Vienna Gratialarchivs is doubtful. More accurate is the master title and coat of arms of an imperial Fähnrich, Nikolaus Gran della Torre (ennobled on 12 May 1621) which successfully laid his claim and revived his title. A wrongful use of noble titles and predicates would have been unthinkable in the time and exposed the social position of the artist. Towards the end of his career, his paintings appear increasingly less "Baroque" (in figural dimensions, illusionism). Gran therefore can be seen as an important precursor of classicism. In 1894, in Vienna's Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (15th District), the Grangasse street was named after him.

• Frescoes • Palais Schwarzenberg (Vienna) • Prunksaal of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (formerly Hofbibliothek) (Vienna) • Eckartsau castle • Pilgrimage church Sonntagberg • cathedral in Sankt Pölten • Kaisersaal in Stift Klosterneuburg • Neues Rathaus and Landhaussaal in Brno • Altar paintings • Churches in the Stift Herzogenburg and Stift Lilienfeld • Parish Church of Hirschstetten • Cathedral in Sankt Pölten • St Anna's church (Vienna) Self-portrait in the monastery of Herzogenburg.

• Illustration — St. Elizabeth Distributing Alms, 1736 • Illustration — Christ and the Roman Captain, 1736 • Illustration — Paradise (sketch for a ceiling fresco in Sonntagberg basilica, Austria), 1736 • Illustration — Mary with Jesus and John, 1745 • Illustration — Rest on the Flight to Egypt, 1746 • Illustration — Glory of the House of Austria, Ceiling fresco in marble hall of Klosterneuburg Monastery (1749) • Illustration — Allegory of Four Seasons, 1757 • Illustration — Madonna and Child with the St. George and St. Stephen • Illustration — Glory of Virgin Mary • Illustration — St. Anne in St. Anne's Church, Vienna • Illustration — Ceiling fresco of the State Hall dome

Daniel Gran is recorded as painter.