Dorothy Tennant

Who was Dorothy Tennant?

Dorothy Tennant was a Victorian neoclassicist painter.

She was the second daughter of Charles Tennant and Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier. She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris.

In 1890, she married the explorer of Africa, Henry Morton Stanley, and became known as Lady Stanley. She edited her husband's autobiography, reportedly removing any references to other women in Stanley's life.

After Stanley's death, she married Henry Jones Curtis, a pathologist, surgeon and writer, in 1907.

She was also an author and illustrated several books, including London Street Arabs, 1890.