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8 ANIMAL PAINTERS 



tion, and it is probable that the Royal favour 

 extended to the elder brother. When nineteen 

 years of age Richard Barrett Davis became a 

 student at the Royal Academy, and while there 

 painted the first of his pictures of which there is 

 record. One of these was a portrait of the Duke of 

 Beaufort's huntsman, Philip Payne, on his favourite 

 grey horse Charington with eight and a half couples 

 of hounds, three of the hounds leading the way 

 into covert over a wall. This painting was beauti- 

 fully engraved in mezzotint by C. Turner, the plate 

 being 27 inches by 18 inches; the print bears a 

 dedication to the Duke of Beaufort. The second 

 picture was entitled " Mares and Foals at the Royal 

 Stud." 



In 1802 R. B. Davis, then in his twentieth 

 year, contributed his first picture, " A Landscape," 

 to the Royal Academy exhibition. Two landscapes 

 with cattle represented him in the following year, 

 and in the exhibition of 1805 he had a picture of 

 " His Majesty in his Travelling Chariot returning 

 to town from Windsor, accompanied by his usual 

 escort of Guards, Riders and Attendants." This 

 work, which is happy in composition and spirited 

 in drawing, was engraved by Charles Turner and 

 published on 20th February, 1806, by Mr. R. B. 

 Davis, 41, Great Portland Street (for the proprietor) 

 and C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square. 



