Dorothy Tennant
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Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism.<ref name=stan/> She was married to explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
BiographyEdit
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.<ref name="npg">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.<ref>Grosvenor Prints, London</ref><ref>w:fr:Jean-Jacques HennerTemplate:Circular reference</ref> She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London.<ref name="Spalding">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name="Spalding"/>
In 1890, she married Sir Henry Morton Stanley,<ref name=stan>Henry Morton Stanley (1909) The Autobiography Of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley Ed., Houghton Mifflin Company</ref> and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography,<ref name=stan/> 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.<ref>Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)</ref>
Lady Stanley was also an author and illustrator,<ref name=google>Google Books (2010)</ref> including London Street Arabs in 1890.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
She died of heart failure on 5 October 1926.<ref>Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", pg. 325</ref>
WorksEdit
- Lord Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), by Dorothy Tennant.jpg
Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) (1880)
- Dorothy Tennant-L'Amour Blesse 1895.jpg
L'Amour Blessé (1895)
- DorothyStanley1890.jpg
Illustration by Dorothy Stanley on the title page of A. J. Mounteney-Jephson's Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator (1890)
BibliographyEdit
- London Street Arabs (London: Cassell & Co., 1890); Google books, archive.org
ReferencesEdit
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- Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", London: John Murray, 1936
- Laurie, Kedrun (2024). "Nymphes et gamins: les deux faces de Dorothy Tennant", in Elles. Les élèves de Jean-Jacques Henner (Dijon: Editions Faton, 2024). Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, Paris
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- Stanley, Henry, The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, London: Sampson, 1909