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Dorothy Tennant

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Dorothy, Lady Stanley
Portrait of Lady Dorothy Stanley, by George Frederic Watts
Born
Dorothy Tennant

(1855-03-22)22 March 1855
London, England
Died5 October 1926(1926-10-05) (aged 71)
NationalityBritish
EducationSlade School of Fine Art
Known forPainting
Spouse
(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

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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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Bibliography

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Henry Morton Stanley (1909) The Autobiography Of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley Ed., Houghton Mifflin Company
  2. ^ "Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) (1856-1937), Photographer". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
  3. ^ Grosvenor Prints, London
  4. ^ w:fr:Jean-Jacques Henner
  5. ^ a b Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
  6. ^ Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)
  7. ^ Google Books (2010)
  8. ^ "Lady Dorothy Stanley". Tate.
  9. ^ Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", pg. 325
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