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Colvin, Sir Sidney

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Colvin, Sir Sidney (1845–1927), critic of art and literature. He published several volumes including lives of W. S. Landor (1881) and Keats (1887). He moved in artistic and literary circles, and corresponded with some of the most eminent intellectuals of his day. He edited the Edinburgh edition of R. L. Stevenson's works (1894–7) and The Letters of R. L. Stevenson (1899 and 1911) and in 1895 published the Vailima Letters written to him by Stevenson, 1890–4.

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Sir Sidney Colvin

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Sir Sidney Colvin , 1845–1927, English man of letters. Slade professor of fine arts at Cambridge and keeper of prints at the British Museum, he was a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, whose works and letters he edited. Colvin wrote several studies on literature and art, including Early Engraving and Engravers in England (with A. M. Hind, 1905) and John Keats: His Life and Poetry (1917).

Bibliography: See his Memories and Notes of Persons and Places (1921).

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