David Davies (Artist)

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From a Distant Land , 1889, oil on canvas, 80.9 × 115.6 cm, Art Gallery of New South Wales

David Davies (born May 21, 1864 in Ballarat , † March 26, 1939 in Looe ) was an Australian painter from the Heidelberg School , the first significant movement of Western art in Australia.

Life

Davies was in Victoria as a child Welsh born parents. He was one of six children.

Davies attended art classes at the Ballarat School of Mines and Industries (now the University of Ballarat ). Later one of his paintings, The Burden and Heat of the Day , was purchased by the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery . In 1886 he enrolled with Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery of Victoria . One of his student works from the time is Study of Male Nude (1887). In the following years he studied with George Frederick Folingsby .

In 1890 the artist left Australia to study with Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. On December 18, 1891, he married his fellow student Janet Sophia Davies in the British Embassy. Shortly after the wedding, the couple moved to St Ives , England. In 1893 they returned to Australia and settled in Templestowe , Victoria. There the couple had a daughter who died a few months after the birth. In 1896, shortly after the birth of another daughter, the family moved to Cheltenham , Victoria.

In 1897 they returned to England and settled in St Ives. After the birth of a son in January 1900, the family moved several times along the coast, to Carbis Bay , then to Newquay and Tintagel , and finally to Wales.

In 1908 he moved the family to Dieppe , France, presumably in an attempt to improve his health . His wife, Janet, taught English at a girls' school there. After the outbreak of the First World War , they lived in London , but then settled again in Dieppe. From time to time Davies left Dieppe to paint with his friend and sponsor Richard Heyworth near Cheltenham and particularly in Heyworth's studio in Sennybridge in the Brecon Beacons in Wales. His paintings from the period mainly showed French villages and landscapes.

In May 1926 Davies held a very successful solo exhibition in Melbourne. In 1932, Davies settled in Looe with his family. A large exhibition of his work was shown at the Plymouth City Art Gallery .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Candice Bruce: Davies, David (1864-1939). In: Australian Dictionary of Biography , Vol. 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, p. 232.

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SURNAME Davies, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Ballarat
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1939
Place of death Loooe