Stephen Poyntz Denning (1795 – 8 June 1864) was an English portrait painter and gallery curator. He studied drawing and painting under

John Masey Wright John Masey Wright (1777–1866) was an English watercolour-painter. He was the son of an organ-builder and was apprenticed to the same business, but, as it proved distasteful to him, he was allowed to follow his natural inclination for art. As a b ...

, working from Wright's address from 1814 to 1817, before exhibiting oil and watercolour miniature portraits at the

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between 1814 and 1852, as well as a small number of oil genre scenes in 1844 at the

British Institution The British Institution (in full, the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom; founded 1805, disbanded 1867) was a private 19th-century society in London formed to exhibit the works of living and dead artists; it w ...

. In 1821 he became Curator of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, a post he held until his death. He died at

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and was buried on 10 June 1864 at West Norwood Cemetery.

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Portraits by Denning
at the

National Portrait Gallery (London) The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was arguably the first national public gallery dedicated to portraits in the world when it ...

Biography
at the site of the

Wallace Collection The Wallace Collection is a museum in London occupying Hertford House in Manchester Square, the former townhouse of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford. It is named after Sir Richard Wallace, who built the extensive collection, along w ...

*, including his painting of Queen Victoria in the Dulwich Picture Gallery {{DEFAULTSORT:Denning 1787 births 1864 deaths Portrait miniaturists 19th-century English painters English male painters English curators Burials at West Norwood Cemetery English portrait painters 19th-century English male artists