Author:Sidney Colvin

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Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927)

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art and literary scholar and museum administrator; Slade Professor of Fine Art, Cambridge; director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Keeper of the department of prints and drawings in the British Museum; confidante and correspondent of Robert Louis Stevenson

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "S. C."

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "S. C."

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Also wrote for Pall Mall Gazette, the Fortnightly Review, The Portfolio, Cornhill and Edinburgh.

Sir Sidney Colvin

Works

• A Word for Germany, from the English Republican (1870)
• Children in Italian and English Design (1872)
• Landor (1881) (External scan)
• Keats (1904) (External scan)
• John Keats His Life And Poetry His Friends Critics And After Fame (1917) (External scan)
• On concentration and suggestion in poetry (1915) (External scan)
• Memories & notes of persons & places, 1852-1912 (1921) 2nd ed. (1922)

Contributions

• Atkinson's English Painters (1871)
• Atkinson's English Artists (1872)

Contributions to EB1911

• “Art,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Baldovinetti, Alessio,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Botticelli, Sandro,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Dürer, Albrecht,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Fine Arts,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Finiguerra, Maso,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Flaxman, John,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Giorgione,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Giotto,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Leonardo da Vinci,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Marcantonio,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Michelangelo,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Contributions to the DNB

• Flaxman, John
• Keats, John
• Stevenson, Robert Louis
• Stevenson, Robert Alan Mowbray (DNB01)
• Watts, George Frederic (DNB12)

Edited works

• A Florentine Picture Chronicle (1898)
• Drawings By Old Masters At Oxford (1902-08)
• Early Engraving And Engravers In England (1905)
• The letters of Robert Louis Stevenson (1912) in 4 vols. (External scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 4)(External scan)

Note: various renditions of these publications appear with new insertions

Works about Colvin

• “Colvin, Sidney,” in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• “Colvin, Sidney, D.Litt.,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons
• “Colvin, Sidney,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Colvin, Sidney,” in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• “Colvin, Sir Sidney,” in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• “Colvin, Sir Sidney,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
• “Obituary: Sir Sidney Colvin, art critic and friend of Stevenson,” in The Times (1927)