SIDNEY COLVIN
\sˈɪdnɪ kˈɒlvɪn], \sˈɪdnɪ kˈɒlvɪn], \s_ˈɪ_d_n_ɪ k_ˈɒ_l_v_ɪ_n]\
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An English critic; born in Norwood, Surrey, June 18, 1845. He became professor of fine arts at Cambridge in 1873. His writings include "Children in Italian and English Design" (1872), and books on Landor, Durer, and other writers and artists.
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An English writer; keeper of prints and drawings in the British Museum; born in Norwood, Eng., June 18, 1845. He contributed largely to periodical literature, chiefly upon subjects relative to history and the fine arts. Among his works are: "Life of Walter Savage Landor" (1881); "Life of Keats" (1887) in Moreley's "English Men of Letters", "A Florentine Picture and Chronicle" (1898); "Early History of Engraving in England" (1901). He edited "Letters of Keats" (1887), and "Letters of R. L. Stevenson" (1899).
By Charles Dudley Warner
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