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
Spouse: Frances Sitwell (m. 1903; died 1924)
Parents: Bazett David Colvin and Mary Steuart Bayley
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.
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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. In 1873 he was Slade professor ...
Sir Sydney Colvin. Gender: male. Date Born: 1845. Date Died: 1927. Place Born: Norwood, Croydon, Greater London, England, UK. Place Died: Kensington, Kensington ...
(1845–1927). After establishing himself as an art critic, Sidney Colvin turned to his love of literature and became a notable literary biographer.
Art critic and writer, particularly for 'The Portfolio' and 'The Fortnightly Review'; Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1876–83; then Keeper of Prints and ...
Aug 3, 2023 · Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "S. C.". This author wrote articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica, ...
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