Lady Dorothy Stanley | |
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| Born | Dorothy Tennant 22 March 1855 London, England |
| Died | 5 October 1926 (aged 71) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Painting |
| Spouse(s) | |
Dorothy Tennant (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism.[1]
Biography
Tennant was born in Russell Square, London, the second daughter of Charles Tennant and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier (1819–1918). Her sister was the photographer, Eveleen Tennant Myers.[2] She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.[3][4] She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London.[5] Outside of London Tennant featured in exhibitions by the Fine Art Society in Glasgow and also in the Autumn Exhibitions held in Liverpool and Manchester.[5]
In 1890, she married the explorer of Africa, Henry Morton Stanley,[1] and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography,[1] reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life. Stanley had an unusual life and had been involved with young boys too.[6]
After Stanley's death, she married, in 1907, Henry Jones Curtis (died 19 February 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and writer.[7]
She was also an author and illustrated several books,[8] including London Street Arabs in 1890.[9]
Works
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Lord Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) (1880)
L'Amour Blessé (1895)
Illustration by Dorothy Stanley on the title page of A. J. Mounteney-Jephson's Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator (1890)
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Bibliography
- London Street Arabs (London: Cassell & Co., 1890); Google books, archive.org
References
- ^ a b c Henry Morton Stanley (1909) The Autobiography Of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley Ed., Houghton Mifflin Company
- ^ "Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) (1856-1937), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ^ Grosvenor Prints, London
- ^ w:fr:Jean-Jacques Henner
- ^ a b Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
- ^ Colonialism and homosexuality p.43-44, Robert F. Aldrich, 2003, Routledge, accessed July 2010
- ^ Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)
- ^ Google Books (2010)
- ^ "Lady Dorothy Stanley". Tate.
- Waller, David (2004). "Dorothy Stanley, Lady Stanley (1855–1926)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/41313. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
- 8 paintings by or after Dorothy Tennant at the Art UK site
- Works by or about Dorothy Tennant at Internet Archive
- Works by Dorothy Tennant at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
