British army officers of the 18th century performed with pen as well as sword. Cadets were instructed in sketching, not to encourage fine art, but so they could draw readable picture of details of military operations. Davies was a British officer whose American and Canadian watercolors have established him as the father of Canadian landscape painting. As an officer, Davies had a distinguished career, but as an artist, Davies was almost unknown until 1953.
In his later watercolors, done af (showing 500 of 1190 characters). |
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