Lot 87: Edward Thompson Davis (1833-1867)

Edward Thompson Davis (1833-1867)
The Remorseful Lovers
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
17½ x 13½ in. (44.5 x 34.3 cm.)

London, The Leicester Gallery, The Victorian Romantics, June 1949, no. 97.

with Leicester Galleries, London, where purchased by
Dr John Rothenstein.
with The Maas Gallery, London.

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
This talented but short lived artist trained at the Birmingham School of Design, presumably about the same time as his exact contemporary Edward Burne-Jones, who attended evening classes there in the late 1840s. He lived all his working life in Worcester, but died in Italy where he had gone for the sake of his health. He exhibited nineteen genre subjects at the Royal Academy between 1854 and 1867.