Thomas Davidson (painter)

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England's Pride and Glory (1894)

Thomas Davidson (born January 17, 1842 in London ; died November 13, 1919 in Walberswick , Suffolk ) was a British genre and history painter .

Life

Davidson was the child of a tailor in the St George Hanover Square district of London . He lost his hearing at the age of four and attended the school for the deaf and mute in St George the Martyr , and later became involved in the social integration of the deaf and mute. Davidson married in Marylebone in 1871 Charlotte Douglas McHeath, with whom he had six children until 1881, when he was already living in middle-class Hampstead , including their son Allan Douglas Davidson (1873-1932), who was also a painter. After 1901 he moved to Suffolk , where his daughter Agnes lived, whose son Thomas Willem van Oss (1901–1941) also became a painter.

From 1863 Davidson exhibited in institutions such as the Royal Academy of Arts and the Society of British Artists , his pictures were still shown in the Birmingham Royal Society of Artists, Dudley Gallery, Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts , Walker Gallery, Liverpool , Manchester Art Gallery , Royal Hibernian Academy , Royal Institute of Oil Painters . He was a member of the Ipswich Art Club, in which he also exhibited.

Davidson designed scenes based on the novels by Emily Brontë . He mainly painted medieval subjects. Between 1894 and 1899 he created a series of pictures based on episodes from Horatio Nelson's life , including Nelson's Signal and England's Pride and Glory , now in the National Maritime Museum .

literature

Frauke Hinneburg: Davidson, Thomas . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 24, Saur, Munich a. a. 1999, ISBN 3-598-22764-7 , p. 471.
Davidson, Thomas . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 470 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Davidson Thomas. In: Bénézit ( Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers. ) Volume 4, 1999, p. 292.

Web links

Commons : Thomas Davidson - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Davidson, Thomas , at Suffolk Painters; accessed on May 1, 2015.
^ Thomas Willem van Oss , at Suffolk Painters.
↑ Stephanie Jones, Jonathan Gosling: Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London 2005, p. 14.
^ Hugo Mercier: The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson. Penguin, London 2006, fig. 44.
↑ England's Pride and Glory. Royal Museum Greenwich .

personal data
SURNAME	Davidson, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH	London
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1919
Place of death	Walberswick , Suffolk

[SP-1] Davidson, Thomas , at Suffolk Painters; accessed on May 1, 2015.

[2] Thomas Willem van Oss , at Suffolk Painters.

[3] Stephanie Jones, Jonathan Gosling: Nelson's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Commander. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, London 2005, p. 14.

[4] Hugo Mercier: The Pursuit of Victory: The Life and Achievement of Horatio Nelson. Penguin, London 2006, fig. 44.

[5] England's Pride and Glory. Royal Museum Greenwich .