RICHARD I5ARRETT DAVIS I47 



companion pictures, were engraved by Giles, plates 

 16 inches by io| inches. 



Davis resided at Windsor during a considerable 

 period of his life ; among his friends he counted 

 James Ward, R.A., Edmund Bristowe and James 

 Stark, the last named a landscape painter who took 

 up his abode at Windsor in 1840. 



Hounds excepted, the artist painted few pictures 

 of dogs ; so far as our researches have shown, he 

 has not even left a portrait of one of the black 

 and tan wire-haired fox-terriers, a breed celebrated 

 for their keenness at fox, badger, and other vermin, 

 and which at the time were much prized by hunts- 

 men. Davis shared possession of this breed with 

 an old friend of his, Mr. P. L. Rumbull, of Sey- 

 mour Place, London. 



Thouijh the artist must have been much with 

 his brother Charles, to whom it is no doubt truly 

 stated he owed a great deal as sporting mentor, the 

 two were not very deeply attached to one another ; 

 they were too utterly unlike to have much in com- 

 mon. Charles Davis's staid character, the "even 

 and deserved prosperity of his career, his converse 

 — almost identity — with great personages, and the 

 responsible authority of his position may easily have 

 induced a certain semi-royal aloofness," to quote 

 from Lord Ribblesdale's excellent account of him. 

 Richard Davis on the other hand was careless and 



