Dorothy Tennant

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Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley (22 March 1855 – 5 October 1926) was an English painter in the Victorian neoclassical style. She was born in Russell Square, London, the daughter of Charles Tennant and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier. Her sister Eveleen Tennant Myers was a photographer.

Dorothy studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London under Edward Poynter and also in Paris with Jean-Jacques Henner. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886, then at the New Gallery and Grosvenor Gallery in London, and she also showed work in Glasgow, Liverpool, and Manchester.

In 1890 she married explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley and became Lady Stanley. She edited his autobiography, reportedly removing references to other women in his life.

After Stanley’s death, she remarried in 1907 to Henry Jones Curtis, a pathologist and writer (he died in 1944). Dorothy Tennant was also an author and illustrator; her book London Street Arabs appeared in 1890. She died of heart failure on 5 October 1926 at the age of 71.