![]() ![]() This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. Copyright may extend on works created by French who died for France in World War II ( more information), Russians who served in the Eastern Front of World War II (known as the Great Patriotic War in Russia) and posthumously rehabilitated victims of Soviet repressions ( more information). Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement the rule of the shorter term. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Jamaica has 95 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. A number of his letters are held by Herefordshire Libraries and Information Service.This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. A major exhibition of his work was held at Hereford in 1937. His works are in a number of public and private collections, with several in each of the National Museum Cardiff, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, Leominster Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale Center for British Art. He is commemorated by a blue plaque, erected in September 2002, on his birthplace in Leominster. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 29 September 1845, at his London home, 11, Bedford Street, in Bedford Square and was buried at All Souls, Kensal Green. He was in Florence in 1834, where he painted the interior of the Uffizi Gallery, and in Amsterdam in 1841 (sending the picture "Jack after a successful cruise, visiting his old comrades at Greenwich"). In 1831 he had a commission from Lord Farnborough to paint an interior of the Vatican and of the Escurial. Between 18 he was commissioned to draw copies of the paintings in the collections of the British royal palaces.ĭavis painted scenes on the Continent during his travels there. (John Ruskin studied those Turners while writing his Modern Painters.) Davis painted the interiors of the Louvre as well. His watercolor of the collection of Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1835) shows the Turner pictures on the walls. He lithographed and published twelve heads from studies by Rubens, and in 1832 some views of Bolton Abbey, drawn from nature on stone. His picture The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (1829) records a collection of Old Masters. He was influenced by the work of his contemporary, Richard Parkes Bonington.ĭavis painted portraits, landscapes, and church interiors, and developed a distinctive speciality in painting the interiors of art galleries. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London, and began exhibiting his works at the annual Royal Academy shows in 1825 (with the painting "My Den"). At the age of eleven, Davis won an award from the local society for the encouragement of the arts. Scarlett was his mother's maiden name she was a distant relation of James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger. ![]() John Scarlett Davis, or Davies, was an English landscape, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer.ĭavis was born in Leominster (the building, 2 High Street, survives), the second of five children of James Davis, a silversmith and watchmaker. ![]()
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