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 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.

Suffolk, England, where he met Sidney Colvin, the English scholar, who became a lifelong friend, and Fanny Sitwell (who later married Colvin). Sitwell, an older ...

First director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge University; British Museum Keeper of Prints and Drawings (1883-1912). Colvin was the son of Bazett Da.

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Art critic and writer, particularly for 'The Portfolio' and 'The Fortnightly Review'; Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1876–83; then Keeper of Prints and ...

Sir Sidney Colvin. (1845-1927), Art and literary scholar and museum administrator. Sitter in 7 portraits. Sidney Colvin was a literary and art critic.

The career of Sidney Colvin (seen here in a delicate pencil drawing by Alphonse. Legros, fig. 1) sits at an interesting, if overlooked moment in the history ...

Aug 3, 2023 · Kt.; British art and literary scholar and museum administrator; Slade Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge; director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, ...

Sep 16, 2021 · Sidney Colvin was huge in the life and career of Robert Louis Stevenson, especially his career. He would also become the second of four British ...