Sidney Colvin

Sir Sidney Colvin ( born June 18, 1845 in Norwood, Surrey, † 1927 in Kensington ) was an English literary and art critic.

Life and work

After Colvin had completed a course of study at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a lecturer there in 1868. In 1873 he was appointed Slade Professor of Fine Art and next year as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

In 1884, Colvin moved to London and worked at the British Museum. His main publications treat biographies of Landor (1881 ) and Keats (1887 ) in the " English Men of Letters series ," also the " Edinburgh Edition" by Robert Louis Stevenson's work, the publication of the letters of Keats (1887 ), and the Vailima Letters ( 1899), letters that Stevenson had written to him; followed by A Florentine Picture- Chronicle ( 1898) and Early History of Engraving in England (1905 ).

Both in the fields of art and in the literature made ​​him very well known Colvin's profound knowledge of his own publications addition. In 1911, Colvin was knighted.