C DAVIS

C prob Charles DAVIS
fl 1890

The artist exhibited two St Ives paintings with the Cornish painters at Dowdeswells [Exhibition catalogue reproduced in Hardie (2009)]. There are at least four possible artists listed with this initial C; this is probably Charles DAVIS (fl 1891 Wood), also noticed at the time by Tovey in his social history study of artists associated with St Ives.

works and access

Works include: Off St Ives, Cornwall (1890); On Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall (1980)

exhibitions

Dowdeswells 1890

references

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p321)

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History

Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1883-1900 list, p 210)

Wood (1995) Victorian Painters