Richard Barrett Davis
Royal animal and landscape painter
Richard Barrett Davis RBA was an animal and landscape painter. Davis was born at Watford in 1782. He studied under William Evans of Eton, under William Beechey, and in the schools of the Royal Academy, where he first exhibited in 1802. He joined the Society of British Artists in 1829, and was appointed animal painter to William IV in 1831. He died in 1854.
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Master student
- William Evans of Eton Student
- William Beechey Master
Parent child
- Edgar Bundy Child
Artworks by this artist
- Portraits of Her Majesty’s Stag Hounds ca. 1840
- Foxhunting- The Few Not Funkers
- The Royal Hunt. 1.The Meeting Place. 1826
- A Case of Real Distress 1850
- John Musters, Esq. and His Hounds 1847
- George Mountford, Huntsman to the Quorn, and W. Derry, Whipper-In, at John O’Gaunt’s Gorse, near Melton Mowbray 1836
- His Majesty King George III returning to Town from Windsor with an Escort of tenth Prince of Wales’ Own Light Dragoons 1806
- Foxhunting- Road Riders or Funkers
- The Royal Hunt. 2. Taking the Stag 1826
- The Few, not Funkers 1841
- The Farm Sale
- George Montford and W. Derry, Huntsman and Whipper-In to the Melton Hounds
- Richard Davis, huntsman to his majesty’s harriers, 1789-1812
- Three ‘liger’ Cubs Bred Between A Lion And A Tigress At The Royal Menagerie 1824
- Road Riders or Funkers 1841