David Davies b. 21 May 1864

  • Artist (Painter)
David Davies, the son of a Ballarat miner, first came to public notice in the late 1880s when he was a student at the National Gallery School. Although he is best known for his romantic moonlit landscapes of the Victorian countryside, most of his career took place in Paris and in Cornwall, where he was closely associated with the St Ives artists' colony.
Tags: Heidelberg School

Citations

  • Bruce, Candice (1981), 'David Davies’.

    http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/davies-david-5907

  • Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape’.

  • (1998), 'The Season of Stress and Toil (illustration), Christie’s Australia catalogue, Australian and European Paintings, April 27 and 28, lot 124’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • MacDonald, J.D. (c.1920), 'The Art and Life of David Davies’, Melbourne, Victoria.

  • Moore, William (1934), 'The Story of Australian Art, 2 vols’, Sydney, NSW : Angus & Robertson (facsimile reprint, 1980).

Initial data sources

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