Sidney Colvin

Sir Sidney Colvin (1845–1927) was an English critic and museum curator. Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became Slade Professor of Fine Art there and director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, then keeper of prints and drawings at the British Museum. A close friend and adviser of Robert Louis Stevenson, he edited Stevenson's letters and the Edinburgh Edition of his works. He wrote the volume on Keats for the English Men of Letters series and, in 1917, a much fuller life of the poet, as well as studies of Landor and of early engraving. He was knighted in 1911.