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COLVIN, SIDNEY (1845– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 748 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLVIN, See also:SIDNEY (1845– ) , See also:English Iiterary and See also:art critic, was See also:born at See also:Norwood, See also:London, on the 18th of See also:June 1845. A See also:scholar of Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, he became a See also:fellow of his college in 1868. In 1873 he was See also:Slade See also:professor of See also:fine art, and was appointed in the next See also:year to the directorship of the See also:Fitzwilliam Museum. In i884 he removed to London on his See also:appointment as keeper of prints and drawings in the See also:British Museum. His See also:chief publications are lives of See also:Landor (1881) and See also:Keats (1887), in the English Men of Letters See also:series; the See also:Edinburgh edition of R. L. See also:Stevenson's See also:works (1894–1897); See also:editions of the letters of Keats (1887), and of the Vailima Letters (1899), which R. L. Stevenson chiefly addressed to him; A Florentine Picture-See also:Chronicle (1898), and See also:Early See also:History of En-graving in See also:England (1905). But in the See also:field both of art and of literature, Mr Colvin's fine See also:taste, wide knowledge and high ideals made his authority and See also:influence extend far beyond his published See also:work.

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