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| A son of John Wesley Jarvis (1780-1840), Charles Wesley Davis became a portrait painter, which included miniatures. He also did historical subjects.
He was raised by the Burtises, his mother's family, who lived at Oyster Bay, Long Island. "About 1828, he was apprenticed to Henry Inman with whom he worked in New York City and Philadelphia until 1834."
Then he returned to New York City, where he was elected to the National Academy of Design and worked from his studio as a portrait painter until his death in 1868 at age fifty six.
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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