Dorothy Tennant

For the American actress, see Dorothy Tennant (actress).

Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism.^[1] She was married to explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Dorothy, Lady Stanley
Portrait of Lady Dorothy Stanley, by George Frederic Watts
Born	Dorothy Tennant (1855-03-22)22 March 1855 London, England
Died	5 October 1926(1926-10-05) (aged 71)
Nationality	British
Education	Slade School of Fine Art
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Sir Henry Morton Stanley ​ ​ (m. 1890)​

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.^[2] She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art, London and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.^[3][4] She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London.^[5] 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.^[5]

In 1890, she married Sir Henry Morton Stanley,^[1] and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography,^[1] 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.^[6]

Lady Stanley was also an author and illustrator,^[7] including London Street Arabs in 1890.^[8]

She died of heart failure on 5 October 1926.^[9]

Works

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  Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904) (1880)
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  L'Amour Blessé (1895)
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  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