Charles M. Davies

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Exhibited student work in South Australian Society of Arts Exhibition 1857 to 1859.
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Citations

  • Appleyard, R. (29 March 1858), 'South Australian Register’.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Biography <p>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. <i>_Head</i>_ and <i>_Satyr</i>_ were in the first exhibition, and the following year he won first prize in the class of boys' drawings for his crayon <i>_Adoration</i>_ . Five sketches were exhibited in 1859: another <i>_Satyr</i>, <i>_ , _St. Cecilia</i>, <i>_ , _Head of a Roman Soldier</i>, <i>_ , _Shakespeare</i>_ and a female head. Most were lent by his father.</p> <p>

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