Here is one way to do it. Just go ahead and have this column in your
DataGridView as a bound column. Then handle the CellPainting event and
draw the bitmap yourself instead of letting the grid to the default
drawing. Here is code that does this assuming the images have been
loaded into a ImageList.

//put some bitmaps into an ImageList
images = new ImageList();
images.Images.Add(SystemIcons.Error.ToBitmap());
images.Images.Add(SystemIcons.WinLogo.ToBitmap());
images.Images.Add(SystemIcons.Question.ToBitmap());

//this.images is an ImageList with your bitmaps
void dataGridView1_CellPainting(object sender,
DataGridViewCellPaintingEventArgs e)
{
   if (e.ColumnIndex == 1 && e.RowIndex > -1 && e.Value != null)
   {
       e.PaintBackground(e.ClipBounds, false);
       int index = (int) e.Value; // the 1, 2 or 3
       Point pt = e.CellBounds.Location;// where you want the bitmap
in the cell
       pt.X += 5;
       pt.Y += 1;
       this.images.Draw(e.Graphics, pt, index);
       e.Handled = true;
   }
}

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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

A DataGridView has an interesting feature. If you databind a column to a
byte array, it assumes that the byte array is an image from a database and
draws the image if it can.

Thanks guys

Simon