Edmund Davis
Nationality: English
Date of birth: 1861.08.03
Place of birth: Melbourne
Date of death: 1939.02.20
Category: collector
Date of birth: 1861.08.03
Place of birth: Melbourne
Date of death: 1939.02.20
Category: collector
Identity:
Sir Edmund Davis, the patron of Charles Ricketts and Shannon and Whistler, lived at Chilham Castle near Canterbury.
Life:
He bought At the Piano y024 from J. J. Cowan in 1899 Brown and Silver: Old Battersea Bridge y033, Symphony in White, No. 3 y061 and Note in Red and Violet: Nets y269; through Messrs Agnews in 1899; and Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Gardens y166 in 1903 from Magda Heinemann.
Bibliography:
Phimister, Ian, 'Davis, Sir Edmund Gabriel (1861-1939)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, 2004 online.
