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HENRY WILLIAM BANKS DAVIS (1833- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 866 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:WILLIAM See also:BANKS See also:DAVIS (1833- )  , See also:English painter, received his See also:art training in the Royal See also:Academy See also:schools, where he was awarded two See also:silver medals . He was elected an See also:associate of the Academy in 1873, and academician in 1877 . He made a considerable reputation as an accomplished painter of quiet See also:pastoral subjects and carefully elaborated landscapes with See also:cattle . His pictures, " Returning to the See also:Fold " (188o), and" Approaching See also:Night " (1899), bought for the See also:Chantrey Fund Collection, are now in the See also:National See also:Gallery of See also:British Art (See also:Tate Gallery) .

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I would like to see a sample of his work. I currently have a painting, titled "The Moore of Ord" by one, "B. Davis" from my Great Grandfathers collection, brought to Canada from Paisley Scotland in the early 1900's.
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