Henry Davy
Henry Davy (1793–1865) was an English landscape painter, active in East Anglia.[1]
Davy was born on 30 May 1793 in The Poplars, what is now Birketts Farm, on Westhall Common, near Halesworth, Suffolk. He was the tenth and the youngest child in his family. His father, Thomas Davy, was a farmer. His mother, Sarah, was Thomas's second wife. She was the eldest daughter of William Gibson, surgeon of Carlton Colville and Willingham Hall, Beccles, Suffolk.[2]
Early on in his life, Davy was apprenticed to a grocer at Halesworth. But his creative yearnings got the better of him and he left his apprenticeship to pursue drawing. Subsequently, he became the apprenticeship of John Sell Cotman at Great Yarmouth.[2]
Works
Davy published at Southwold in 1818 and 1827 sets of etchings illustrating the antiquities of Suffolk and the noblemen's seats in the county. He also exhibited three landscape paintings in 1829 in the Suffolk Street exhibition of the Society of British Artists. His works are:[3]
- A Set of ten Etchings illustrative of Beccles Church, and other Suffolk Antiquities, 1818.
- Series of Etchings illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Suffolk, accompanied with an Historical Index, drawn and etched by Henry Davy, Southwold, 1827.
- Views of the Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen in Suffolk, from drawings by Henry Davy, Southwold, 1827.
Notes
- ↑ Blatchly, J. M. "Davy, Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7313. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Henry Davy". AskART. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
- ↑
Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davy, Henry". Dictionary of National Biography 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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