About Edith Mary Davey
Lived 1867 – 1953 (aged 85–86). Edith Mary Davey was a British painter.
Edith Mary Davey (1867–1953) was a British artist known for painting miniatures and portraits.
Biography Davey was born at Chapel St Leonards in Lincolnshire, where her father was a farmer and landowner.
Davey studied at the Lincoln School of Art and then at the Royal College of Art, RCA, in London. At the RCA, Davey won, among other prizes, a silver medal and studied mural painting under Gerald Moira. She also illustrated a number of books.
Davey was elected an Associate of the Royal College of Art in 1903 and also became an Associate member of the Royal Miniature Society. She died at Barnes in west London.
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British painter
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Edith Mary Davey was born in 1867 in Lincolnshire.
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Edith Mary Davey died in 1953.
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Edith Mary Davey was a painter.
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