Painting ID:: 82348
A Summer Evening oil on canvas on hardboard, 71.1 x 91.2 cm, by David Davies
Date 1895(1895)
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David Davies Australian Painter, 1864-1939
Australian painter. He trained at the Ballarat School of Design, the National Gallery School, Melbourne, and the Acad?mie Julien, Paris. He was associated with the Heidelberg school in the 1890s, when he specialized in poetic evocations of evening, for example Moonrise. In 1897 he moved permanently to Europe, working in St Ives, Cornwall, England; the Conway Valley, Wales; and Dieppe, France, for 25 years and finally settling in Looe, Cornwall. He produced oils and watercolours of all these localities, as well as, portraits and flowerpieces. Among his more important European work in oil was St Ives Bay, A Summer Evening oil on canvas on hardboard, 71.1 x 91.2 cm, by David Davies
Date 1895(1895)
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