Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson
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Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847–1900) was a Scottish art critic, a cousin of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson
. His father was the lighthouse engineer Alan Stevenson
. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, graduated with the master's degree from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
, and studied art in the Edinburgh School of Art and in Paris
and Antwerp, but never practiced painting extensively. From 1889 to 1893 he was professor of fine arts at University College, Liverpool, and from 1893 art critic on the Pall Mall Gazette
. He was one of the most gifted and just of British critics.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
. His father was the lighthouse engineer Alan Stevenson
Alan Stevenson
Alan Stevenson FRSE MInstCE was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses...
. Stevenson was born in Edinburgh, graduated with the master's degree from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Sidney Sussex College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.The college was founded in 1596 and named after its foundress, Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex. It was from its inception an avowedly Puritan foundation: some good and godlie moniment for the mainteynance...
, and studied art in the Edinburgh School of Art and in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and Antwerp, but never practiced painting extensively. From 1889 to 1893 he was professor of fine arts at University College, Liverpool, and from 1893 art critic on the Pall Mall Gazette
Pall Mall Gazette
The Pall Mall Gazette was an evening newspaper founded in London on 7 February 1865 by George Murray Smith; its first editor was Frederick Greenwood...
. He was one of the most gifted and just of British critics.
Selected bibliography
- Engraving (1886)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1898)
- The Art of VelasquezDiego VelázquezDiego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist...
(1895) - Velasquez (1898)
- Essay on RaeburnHenry RaeburnSir Henry Raeburn was a Scottish portrait painter, the first significant Scottish portraitist since the Act of Union 1707 to remain based in Scotland.-Biography:...
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