Stephen Poyntz Denning
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[[File:Denning, Stephen Poyntz - Princess Victoria aged Four - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|alt=Victoria aged 4|[[Queen Victoria|Princess Alexandrina Victoria]] aged four, portrait by Denning, 1823]] |
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'''Stephen Poyntz Denning''' (1795 – 8 June 1864) was an English portrait painter and gallery curator. He studied drawing and painting under [[John Masey Wright]], working from Wright's address from 1814 to 1817, before exhibiting oil and watercolour miniature portraits at the [[Royal Academy]] between 1814 and 1852, as well as a small number of oil genre scenes in 1844 at the [[British Institution]]. In 1821 he became Curator of the [[Dulwich Picture Gallery]], a post he held until his death. |
'''Stephen Poyntz Denning''' (1795 – 8 June 1864) was an English portrait painter and gallery curator. He studied drawing and painting under [[John Masey Wright]], working from Wright's address from 1814 to 1817, before exhibiting oil and watercolour miniature portraits at the [[Royal Academy]] between 1814 and 1852, as well as a small number of oil genre scenes in 1844 at the [[British Institution]]. In 1821 he became Curator of the [[Dulwich Picture Gallery]], a post he held until his death.{{cite web |title=Artist in Residence - Stephen Poyntz Denning and the Herne Hill Art Set by Brian Green |url=https://www.dulwichsociety.com/the-journal/winter-2014/stephen-poyntz-denning |website=www.dulwichsociety.com |access-date=31 December 2022}} He died at [[Dulwich]] and was buried on 10 June 1864 at [[West Norwood Cemetery]]. |
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