Dorothy Tennant (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter of the

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. She was married to the explorer

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Biography

Tennant was born in

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, London, the second daughter of

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and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier (1819–1918). Her sister was the photographer, Eveleen Tennant Myers. She studied painting under

Edward Poynter Sir Edward John Poynter, 1st Baronet (20 March 183626 July 1919) was an English painter, designer, and draughtsman, who served as President of the Royal Academy. Life Poynter was the son of architect Ambrose Poynter. He was born in Paris, Fr ...

at the

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, London and with

Jean-Jacques Henner Jean-Jacques Henner (5 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects and portraits. Biography Henner was born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studies ...

in Paris. She first exhibited at the

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in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London. 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 the

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of Africa,

,Henry Morton Stanley (1909) ''The Autobiography Of Sir Henry Morton Stanley'', Dorothy Stanley Ed.,

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and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography, reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life. After Stanley's death, she married, in 1907, Henry Jones Curtis (died 19 February 1944), a pathologist, surgeon and writer. She was also an author and illustrated several books,Google Books (2010)
/ref> including ''London Street Arabs'' in 1890. She died of heart failure on October 5, 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, ''Lord 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)
Google books

archive.org

References

* * Chapman-Huston, Desmond, "The Lost Historian, A Memoir of Sir Sidney Low", London: John Murray, 1936

External links

* * * * Stanley, Henry
''The Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley''
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