John Scarlett Davis
John Scarlett Davis | |
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Born | 3, High Street, Leominster, England | 1 September 1804
Died | 29 September 1845 11, Bedford Street, Bedford Square, London, England | (aged 41)
Nationality | English |
Occupation | painter |
Known for | Landscape, portrait and architectural paintings |
John Scarlett Davis (1 September 1804 – 29 September 1845), or Davies, was an English
Life and work
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Davis was born in
Davis painted portraits, landscapes, and church interiors, and developed a distinctive speciality in painting the interiors of art galleries. His picture The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (1829) records a collection of Old Masters. He
Davis painted scenes on the Continent during his travels there. In 1831 he had a commission from Lord Farnborough to paint an interior of the Vatican and of the Escurial. He was in Florence in 1834, where he painted the interior of the Uffizi Gallery, and in Amsterdam in 1841 (sending the picture "Jack after a successful cruise, visiting his old comrades at Greenwich").
He died of
He is commemorated by a blue plaque, erected in September 2002, on his birthplace in Leominster.[1] His works are in a number of public and private collections, with several in each of the National Museum Cardiff,[2] the National Portrait Gallery,[4] Tate Britain,[5] Hereford Museum and Art Gallery,[1] Leominster Museum,[1] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[6] and the Yale Center for British Art. A major exhibition of his work was held at Hereford in 1937.[1] A number of his letters are held by Herefordshire Libraries and Information Service.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 1904396151
- ^ doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7249. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ Lionel Lambourne, Victorian Painting, London, Phaidon Press, 1999; p. 27.
- ^ "John Scarlett Davis". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "John Scarlett Davis 1804–1845". Tate Britain. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "John Scarlett Davis". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 146–7.
External links
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- 27 artworks by or after John Scarlett Davis at the Art UK site
- J S Davis online (ArtCyclopedia)
- Davis's watercolor of the Windus collection.
- A self-portrait.
- Main Gallery at the Louvre Archived 3 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine (1831, oil on Canvas - Government Art Collection)