His other sitters included Sir Walter Scott, the Duke of Wellington, Henry Bartle Frere and Sir George Beaumont.Īccording to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica:Ĭompetent judges have deemed his most successful works to be his portraits of women and children. The Prince of Wales visited him especially often, and many of his finest portraits were hung in the state apartments at St James's Palace, notably those of the prince himself, the Duke and Duchess of York, Lord Rodney and Lord Nelson. He rarely attempted ideal subjects, though a Sleeping Venus, Belisarius, Jupiter and Io, a Bacchante and Cupid and Psyche are recorded among his works. At once successful, he had throughout life the most fashionable and wealthy sitters and was the greatest rival to the growing attraction of Thomas Lawrence. His earliest love was for landscape, but necessity obliged him to turn to the more lucrative business of portrait painting. Hoppner first exhibited at the Royal Academy In 1780. Sir John Hoppner was an English portrait painter, much influenced by Reynolds, who achieved fame as a brilliant colourist. A number of his letters are held by Herefordshire Libraries and Information Service.Sir John HOPPNER R.A. A major exhibition of his work was held at Hereford in 1937. His works are in a number of public and private collections, with several in each of the National Museum Cardiff, the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery, Leominster Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale Center for British Art. He is commemorated by a blue plaque, erected in September 2002, on his birthplace in Leominster. He died of pulmonary tuberculosis on 29 September 1845, at his London home, 11, Bedford Street, in Bedford Square and was buried at All Souls, Kensal Green. He was in Florence in 1834, where he painted the interior of the Uffizi Gallery, and in Amsterdam in 1841 (sending the picture 'Jack after a successful cruise, visiting his old comrades at Greenwich'). In 1831 he had a commission from Lord Farnborough to paint an interior of the Vatican and of the Escurial. Between 18 he was commissioned to draw copies of the paintings in the collections of the British royal palaces.ĭavis painted scenes on the Continent during his travels there. ( John Ruskin studied those Turners while writing his Modern Painters.) Davis painted the interiors of the Louvre as well. His watercolor of the collection of Benjamin Godfrey Windus (1835) shows the Turner pictures on the walls. He lithographed and published twelve heads from studies by Rubens, and in 1832 some views of Bolton Abbey, drawn from nature on stone. His picture The Interior of the British Institution Gallery (1829) records a collection of Old Masters.

He was influenced by the work of his contemporary, Richard Parkes Bonington.ĭavis painted portraits, landscapes, and church interiors, and developed a distinctive speciality in painting the interiors of art galleries. He studied at the Royal Academy Schools in London, and began exhibiting his works at the annual Royal Academy shows in 1825 (with the painting 'My Den'). At the age of eleven, Davis won an award from the local society for the encouragement of the arts. Scarlett was his mother's maiden name she was a distant relation of James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger.

1844 possibly his last work ĭavis was born in Leominster (the building, 2 High Street, survives ), the second of five children of James Davis, a silversmith and watchmaker. Life and work The Spaniards - Hampstead Heath, c.

John Scarlett Davis (1 September 1804 – 29 September 1845), or Davies, was an English landscape, portrait and architectural painter, and lithographer. Landscape, portrait and architectural paintings 11, Bedford Street, Bedford Square, London, England

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