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Dorothy Tennant

{{short description|English painter (1855–1926)}}

{{for|the American actress|Dorothy Tennant (actress)}}

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{{Infobox artist

| name = Dorothy, Lady Stanley

| image = Dorothy Tennant 002.jpg

| imagesize =

| caption = Portrait of Lady Dorothy Stanley, by George Frederic Watts

| birth_name = Dorothy Tennant

| birth_date = {{birth date|1855|3|22|df=y}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1926|10|5|1855|3|22|df=y}}

| death_place =

| nationality = British

| education = Slade School of Fine Art

| field = Painting

| spouse = {{marriage|Sir Henry Morton Stanley|1890}}

}}

Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism. She was married to explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

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.{{cite web|title=Eveleen Myers (née Tennant) (1856-1937), Photographer|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07354/eveleen-myers-nee-tennant|website=National Portrait Gallery|accessdate=13 April 2018}} She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.[http://www.grosvenorprints.com/catalogs/CLB%20June%2009.pdf Grosvenor Prints, London]w:fr:Jean-Jacques Henner{{circular reference|date=November 2024}} She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London.{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|author-link=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}} 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.

In 1890, she married Sir Henry Morton Stanley,Henry Morton Stanley (1909) The Autobiography Of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, Dorothy Stanley Ed., Houghton Mifflin Company and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography, 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.Supplement to the British Medical Journal (1944)

Lady Stanley was also an author and illustrator,[http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&tbo=p&q=+inauthor:%22Lady+Dorothy+Stanley%22 Google Books (2010)] including London Street Arabs in 1890.{{cite web|title=Lady Dorothy Stanley|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lady-dorothy-stanley-520|publisher=Tate}}

She died of heart failure on 5 October 1926.Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", pg. 325

Works

File:Lord Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), by Dorothy Tennant.jpg|Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) (1880)

File:Dorothy Tennant-L'Amour Blesse 1895.jpg|L'Amour Blessé (1895)

File: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)

Bibliography

  • London Street Arabs (London: Cassell & Co., 1890); [https://books.google.com/books?id=oc4IAQAAIAAJ Google books], [https://archive.org/stream/londonstreetarab00stan#page/n37/mode/2up archive.org]

References

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  • {{ODNBweb | title=Dorothy Stanley, Lady Stanley (1855–1926) | first=David | last=Waller | year=2004 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/41313 }}
  • 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