art student, was the eldest of the four sons of Charles Davies, a medical practitioner, pastoralist and politician in South Australia. In 1857-59, as a pupil at the Adelaide Educational Institution, he showed drawings at the first three exhibitions of the South Australian Society of Arts. Head and Satyr were in the first exhibition, and the following year he won first prize in the class of boys’ drawings for his crayon Adoration . Five sketches were exhibited in 1859: another Satyr , St. Cecilia , Head of a Roman Soldier , Shakespeare and a female head. Most were lent by his father.
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- 1992
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- 2011
