Sir Sidney Colvin (18 June 1845 – 11 May 1927) was a British curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family.
Sidney Colvin
British literary critic
Sir Sidney Colvin was a British curator and literary and art critic, part of the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family. He is primarily remembered for his friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson. Wikipedia
Born: June 18, 1845, West Norwood, London, United Kingdom
Died: May 11, 1927 (age 81 years), Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Parents: Bazett David Colvin and Mary Steuart Bayley
Spouse: Frances Sitwell (m. 1903; died 1924)
Sidney Colvin was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge at the early age of twenty seven, at a time when Ruskin held the Slade Chair at Oxford.
Oct 28, 2024 · Sidney Colvin, the English scholar, who became a lifelong friend, and Fanny Sitwell (who later married Colvin).
Sidney Colvin was a literary and art critic. A scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a fellow of his college in 1868.
Art critic and writer, particularly for 'The Portfolio' and 'The Fortnightly Review'; Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1876–83; then Keeper of Prints and ...
(1845–1927). After establishing himself as an art critic, Sidney Colvin turned to his love of literature and became a notable literary biographer.
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Vailima letters; being correspondence addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November, 1890-October 1894. [Edited by Sidney Colvin] Volume 2.
[X-Info] Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927: Catalogue of early Italian engravings preserved in the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum. (Printed by ...