1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 6… (1911)
“ COLVIN, SIDNEY (1845–) , English literary and art critic, was born at Norwood, London, on the 18th of June 1845. A scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a fellow of his college in 1868. In 1873 he was Slade professor of fine art, and was appointed in the next year to the directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum. ”
