Edward Thomson Davis
Born1833
Northwick, Worcestershire, England
Died(1867-06-12)12 June 1867
Rome
NationalityBritish
OccupationPainter
Words of Comfort
‘Miss Pugh’ of Wheathill (1856)

Edward Thomson Davis (1833 – 12 June 1867) was a British genre painter, active in Worcester, England.

Biography

Davis was born at Northwick, near Worcester,[1] and studied at Birmingham School of Design[2] and then at Worcester School of Design, and worked collaboratively with his fellow student at the latter, Benjamin Williams Leader, on at least one painting, A View of Frog Lane (1854).[3]

He exhibited twenty works at the Royal Academy, starting in 1854.[2][3] His drawing, Studies of a Child and Two Women, is in the collection of The Tate Gallery.[4] Other works are in Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Shipley Art Gallery, Worcester City Museum and the Ashmolean Museum.[5][2] In 1951 an album of his drawings was sold by Christie's.[2]

In 1854, his address was 22 Foregate Street, Worcester; during a "short stay"[1] in London in 1856 he gave his address as 16 Russell Place, Fitzroy Square.[2] In or after 1859, he was again living in Northwick.[1]

Davis visited the Netherlands, and travelled to Rome in 1866.[1] He died there on 12 June 1867, during a cholera outbreak, at the age of just 34.[3][2]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Edward Thompson Davis - Weary Wanderer". Sotheby's. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Davis, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7280. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. 1 2 3 Curator Philippa (5 July 2010). "Edward Thompson Davis (1833–1867)". Research Worcestershire. Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  4. ↑ "Edward Thompson Davis of Worcester 1833–1867". Tate. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. ↑ 4 artworks by or after Edward Thomson Davis at the Art UK site
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