Dorothy Tennant

Lady Dorothy Stanley
Portrait of Lady Dorothy Stanley, by George Frederick Watts
Born Dorothy Tennant
(1855-03-22)22 March 1855
London, United Kingdom
Died 5 October 1926(1926-10-05) (aged 71)
Nationality British
Education Slade School of Fine Art
Known for Painting
Spouse(s)
Henry Morton Stanley (m. 1890)

Dorothy Tennant (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was a Victorian neoclassicist British painter.[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

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  6. ↑ Colonialism and homosexuality p.43-44, Robert F. Aldrich, 2003, Routledge, accessed July 2010
  7. ↑ Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)
  8. ↑ Google Books (2010)
  9. ↑ "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.)
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