Edward Thomson Davis (1833 – 12 June 1867) was a British

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, active in

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Biography

Davis was born at Northwick, near Worcester, and studied at Birmingham School of Design and then at Worcester School of Design, and worked collaboratively with his fellow student at the latter,

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, on at least one painting, ''A View of Frog Lane'' (1854). He exhibited twenty works at the

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, starting in 1854. His drawing, ''Studies of a Child and Two Women'', is in the collection of The Tate Gallery. Other works are in

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, Worcester City Museum and the

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. In 1951 an album of his drawings was sold by

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. In 1854, his address was 22 Foregate Street, Worcester; during a "short stay" in London in 1856 he gave his address as 16 Russell Place,

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. In or after 1859, he was again living in Northwick. Davis visited the

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, and travelled to

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in 1866. He died there on 12 June 1867, during a

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outbreak, at the age of just 34.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Edward Thomson 1833 births 1867 deaths Artists from Worcester, England 19th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English male artists