{{Short description|English portrait painter (1829–1896)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use British English|date=September 2022}}
'''Samuel Sidley''' (1829–1896) was an English portrait painter.<ref name=":0">Cust 1897, p. 202.</ref>
== Life == Samuel Sidley, born in Yorkshire in 1829, first studied art in the school of art at Manchester. Subsequently he came to London and was admitted to the schools of the Royal Academy. In 1855 he exhibited for the first time at the Royal Academy, sending ''An Ancient Mariner''. He became chiefly known as a successful portrait-painter, and gained frequent commissions for official and presentation portraits. Among these were portraits of Professor Fawcett, Bishop Colenso (presented by his family to the National Portrait Gallery), Lady Brassey, the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, and other persons of note. He also painted some subject pictures, of which ''Alice in Wonderland'', ''The Challenge'', and a few others, were engraved and met with some popularity. Sidley continued to paint up to the time of his death, which took place at 8 Victoria Road, Kensington, on 9 July 1896. He was a member of the Royal Society of British Artists, and an original associate of the Royal Cambrian Academy.<ref name=":0" />
== Gallery == <gallery heights="150" widths="150"> File:John William Colenso by Samuel Sidley.jpg|John William Colenso (1866) File:Isaac Holden, painting by Samuel Sidley.jpg|Isaac Holden (1868) File:Edmund Potter portrait.jpg|Edmund Potter (before 1883) File:Samuel Sidley (1829-1896) - Arabella Bray (d.1909), Lady Wolfe-Murray - PG 2873 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|Arabella Bray, Lady Wolfe-Murray ({{Circa|1890}}) File:Samuel Sidley (1829-1896) - Lieutenant-General Sir James Wolfe-Murray of Cringletie (1853–1919) - PG 2872 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|Lt.-Gen. Sir James Wolfe-Murray of Cringletie (1893) File:Eliza Letita Cottam nee Ironside of Studley Royal.jpg|Eliza Letita Cottam née Ironside (before 1896) </gallery>
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== Sources == '''Attribution:''' *{{DNB |last=Cust |first=Lionel Henry|wstitle=Sidley, Samuel |volume=52|pages=202}}
== Further reading == *{{cite ODNB |last=Cust |first=L.H. |last2=Baker |first2=Anne Pimlott |date=2004 |title=Sidley, Samuel (1829–1896) |id=25518}} * Graves, Algernon (1884). ''[https://archive.org/details/b21778504/page/214/mode/2up?view=theater A Dictionary of Artists Who Have Exhibited Works in the Principal London Exhibitions of Oil Paintings From 1760 to 1880]''. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 214. * Oliver, Valerie Cassel, ed. (2011). [https://doi.org/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00169114 "Sidley, Samuel"]. ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists''. Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 19 September 2022. * [https://link-gale-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/CS151838442/TTDA?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-TTDA&xid=2f6b879f "Obituary"]. ''The Times''. 10 July 1896. p. 9. Retrieved 19 September 2022 – via Gale.
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Category:1829 births Category:1896 deaths Category:19th-century English painters Category:English portrait painters