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.

Sir Sydney Colvin. Gender: male. Date Born: 1845. Date Died: 1927. Place Born: Norwood, Croydon, Greater London, England, UK. Place Died: Kensington, Kensington ...

Sidney Colvin, the English scholar, who became a lifelong friend, and Fanny Sitwell (who later married Colvin).

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Colvin was Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, and a close friend of Robert Louis Stevenson; he prepared collected editions of Stevenson's ...

Belle da Costa Greene, retained copy of typed letter to Sidney Colvin, 27 January 1918. ARC 1310. Archives of the Morgan Library & Museum. Printer-friendly ...