Born in Warwickshire, England; came to America before 1855. Came to America before 1855. Married Jeannie Watts after 1865.

He advertised as a portrait painter in Montgomery, Alabama about 1855. He worked as a poet and genre painter in New Orleans about 1860. In 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned lieutenant with the Delhi Southrons.

After the Civil War he lived in Chicago and Washington D.C. He settled in Detroit about 1875 and died there in 1907.

On December 17, 1863, Congress authorized a gold medal for Grant honoring his victories at Fort Donelson, Vicksburg and Chattanooga. Antrobus contracted with Anthony Paquet on May 5, 1864, for the dies for the medal (Julian MI-29). Paquet executed the dies following the Antrobus design. At 105 mm it is one of the largest medals produced at the mint. Julian describes the medal as requiring sixty to eighty blows in the screw press. The recent mint catalogs offer the Grant medal (USM 425) in 3 inch (76 mm) diameter.

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