Henry William Banks Davis RA
Born 26 August 1833
Died 1 December 1914
Active: 1851 - 1904
Country of birth: England
Country of death: Wales
Painter, sculptor
Born in London. Died in Radnorshire, Wales.
Wealth at death: £3,243 10s. 4d.
Probate date: 22 July 1915
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
New entries have been made each time a work was exhibited. Click here for more information.
Locations
Address 40 Howland Street London | View on map
1852 (Circa)
Address 41 Upper Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square London | View on map
1854 (Circa) - 1856 (Circa)
Address 4 Kildare Gardens London | View on map
1857 (Circa)
Address 52 Upper Charlotte Street Fitzroy Square London | View on map
1859 (Circa)
Address 10A Cunningham Place London | View on map
1867 (Circa) - 1872 (Circa)
Address 18 St. John's Wood Road London NW | View on map
1876 (Circa) - 1892 (Circa)
Address Glaslyn Rhayader | View on map
1890 (Circa) - 1914
Also using a London address in this period
Address 7 Pembridge Cresent London W | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1914
Also gave an address in Radnor, Wales from 1890s until his death
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
p.59
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1852 - 1914
Exhibited 59 times, on the first two occasions (in 1852 and 1854) he showed sculpture (a bust, a medallion portrait and an ideal work). After this he only seems to have exhibited paintings.
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
28 January 1873 - 18 June 1877
Elected RA in 1877.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
18 June 1877 - 1 December 1914
Died in 1914.
Personal and Professional Connections
Seconder of Andrea Carlo Lucchesi
20 April 1893
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966
2010
Name: Henry William Davis
Probate Date: 22 Jul 1915
Death Date: 1 Dec 1914
Death Place: Radnorshire, Powys, Wales
Registry: London
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1893.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The Eighty-Fourth, 1852
1852
p. 59
Citing this record
'Henry William Banks Davis RA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1214487372, accessed 03 Oct 2023]