Dorothy Tennant
English painter
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
(m. 1890)Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism.[1] She was married to explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
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 Sir 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. After Sir Henry Morton Stanley's death, his widow remarried, in 1907, to Henry Jones Curtis (died 19 February 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and writer.[6]
Lady Stanley was also an author and illustrator,[7] including London Street Arabs in 1890.[8]
She died of heart failure on 5 October 1926.[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)
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.
- ^ Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)
- ^ Google Books (2010)
- ^ "Lady Dorothy Stanley". Tate.
- ^ Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", pg. 325
- 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.)
- Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", London: John Murray, 1936
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dorothy Tennant.
- 8 artworks 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)
- Stanley, Henry, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, London: Sampson, 1909
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