Mary Davis (artist)

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Mary Davis
Born
Mary Halford

22 March 1866
London, England
Died30 October 1941(1941-10-30) (aged 75)
Romsey, Hampshire, England
NationalityBritish
EducationRidley Art School
Known forPainting
TitleLady Davis
SpouseSir Edmund Davis (m. 1889–1939, his death)

Mary Davis, Lady Davis (née Halford; 22 March 1866 – 30 October 1941) was a British artist known as a designer and painter of fans.[1]

Biography

Davis was born in London and studied art at the Ridley Art School.

Paris Salon from 1898.[2][1]

In 1914 Davis had a joint exhibition with Charles Conder, another noted fan artist of the time, in New York at the Colnaghi & Obach gallery.[3] In 1919 Davis shared an exhibition, entitled Pictures, Portraits, Fans and Frivolities, with Laura Anning Bell and Constance Rea at the Fine Art Society in London.[3]

Davis also exhibited at the Leicester Galleries, the Grosvenor Gallery and with both the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.[3] The Tate holds an example of her painted fans.[4]

In 1889 she had married Edmund Davis, who was knighted in 1927.

Whistler.[3] The collection was exhibited to the public at the French Gallery in 1915.[5] They also commissioned artists, including Charles Conder, to decorate their Holland Park home and also Chilham Castle, which they owned until after Edmund's death in 1939.[6][4] In due course, the Davises donated works from their art collection to the Iziko South African National Gallery and to the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris.[3] They also donated some items to the Tate collection.[5]

References

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  2. ^ a b c Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
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  4. ^ a b "Masques et Bergamasque (Fan)". Tate. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Fan: The Romantic Excursion 1899". Tate. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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