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)
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.
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Professor of English, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Author of The Art of Biography; Richard the Third; and others. Paul ...
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.
Sir Sidney Colvin. (1845-1927), Art and literary scholar and museum administrator. Sitter in 7 portraits. Sidney Colvin was a literary and art critic.
(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 ...
Historian of art and literature, museum administrator, in London. Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1876-1884; Keeper of the British Museum ...
Aug 3, 2023 ˇ Kt.; British art and literary scholar and museum administrator; Slade Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge; director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, ...
Sep 16, 2021 ˇ 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 ...