Details
LOUIS B. DAVIS (1860-1941)
Slayer of hearts
signed with monogram (lower right) and signed and inscribed 'No. 1 SLAYER OF HEARTS/ Louis Davis Pinner Middlesex' (on a label on the reverse)
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and gum arabic on board
21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) diameter, circular
Provenance
George Skilbeck.
with Andy Tilbrook, 1992, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
A. Tomson, Louis Davis, A.R.W.S., Art Journal, 1907, opposite p. 50.
Exhibited
London, Old Water-Colour Society, Summer Exhibition, 1898, no. 1 (as 'Victor Cordium').

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