Madonna and Child

Based in Worcester, Davis studied at the Birmingham School of Design contributing to the Royal Academy from 1854 until his untimely death from cholera in Rome in 1867. The Tate owns one of his watercolour sketches, and examples of his genre paintings hang in the Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Worcester City Museums.
Most of the artist's œuvre was executed in the Cotswolds, and this work comes from the collection of Roger Warner, the noted Burford dealer.