Born in 1858, Grace Ann French grew up in New Hampshire and studied in the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  She came to Dakota Territory in 1885 with her mother Sara and sister Abbie.  She taught briefly at Black Hills College in Hot Springs, wrote standards for normal school art training, and, with her sister Abbie, instructed amateurs and serious students in painting, technical drawing and china painting for more than 50 years from her small Ra (showing 500 of 1264 characters).