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(1) John Crace
(b Greenwich, 1 Nov 1754; d London, 8 May 1819). He briefly ran his own house-decorating business in London (1776–8) before taking over the family firm. By 1780 John Crace & Co. had a small number of regular employees, including a cousin also called John Crace. Country-house commissions with the architect Henry Holland included Althorp (c. 1790), Northants, and Woburn Abbey (c. 1790–95), Beds. At Woburn, Crace decorated Holland’s Chinese Dairy (c. 1789) with bold chinoiseries that anticipated his work at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton. John Crace was also closely linked to the circle of John Soane, and he executed decorative schemes for Soane at 12 Lincoln’s Inn Fields (c. 1792), London, and Pitzhanger Manor (c. 1802), Ealing, Middx. He also worked for Soane on the Bank of England (c. 1794), London, in his capacity as Painter to the Board of Works, and held the appointment of Painter to the Royal Hospital at Greenwich.
Part of the Crace family
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