David Davis (1837 - 1921)

RA Collection: People and Organisations

David Davis was a scultpor born in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, Wales. The family surname is spelt both ‘Davis’ and ‘Davies’ across different documentary sources making identification difficult.

Admitted to the Royal Academy Schools (Sculpture) on 21 December 1859. Awarded the silver medal for the best model from the antique in 1861. (See: Royal Academy ‘Annual Report’, (1862), p. 20).

Here is a link to his entry in the RA Schools Register.

He exhibited 13 works at the RA annual exhibitions between 1863-1887.

Further information can be found here, in his entry in the Mapping the Practice & Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 database.

He was the younger brother of William Mynorydd Davis (1826-1901) who also studied sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, (from April 1854), and exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1851-1888.