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Hidden in Plain Sight
Magazine article by Rebecca Blake, 2025
Rebecca Blake looks at the whimsical and flamboyant art of Gerwyn Davies, a two-time National Photographic Portrait Prize finalist.
Sinead Davies
Biography
Sinead Davies, born in Ireland, studied at the Byam Shaw School in London from 1976 to 1980, winning the Byam Shaw Scholarship in 1978 and the British Foundation Institute Award of the Royal Academy of Art in 1980.
1 portrait in the collection
David Davies
Biography
David Davies began studying art at the School of Mines and Industries in his birthplace, Ballarat.
1 portrait in the collection
Rhodri G. Davies
Biography
Rhodri Glyn Davies worked as a television cameraman and director of documentaries while pursuing his interest in photography, exhibiting with a group of artists called Quincunx in Wales and Scotland.
1 portrait in the collection
Barry Sullivan, c. 1863
Davies & Co
Portrait, carte de visite photograph
Purchased 2018
The tennis player (Ken Rosewall), 2010
Sinead Davies
Portrait, oil on canvas
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of the artist 2010
Julia Matthews, c. 1862
Davies & Co
Portrait, albumen silver photograph carte de visite on card
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
William Saurin Lyster, mid to late 1860s
Davies & Co
Portrait, albumen silver carte de visite
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased with funds provided by Graham Smith 2009
The Colonel (Portrait of Walter Withers), 1896
David Davies
Portrait, pastel on paper
Purchased 2009
Rhys Jones, 1991
Rhodri G. Davies
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Betty Meehan 2013
George Rose, 1811
Giovanni Vendramini, T Cadell & W Davies after William Evans, Sir William Beechey
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2012
The Rt Hon. Henry Robert Stewart, Lord Viscount Castlereagh, MRIA & FRS, 1814
Henry Meyer, T Cadell & W Davies after Sir Thomas Lawrence, William Evans
Portrait, engraving on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Gift of Ted and Gina Gregg 2012
Portrait 73
Magazine
Glynis Traill-Nash explores a new Romance Was Born commission, Emma Kindred looks at Vincent Namatjira, and Rebecca Blake profiles NPPP finalist Gerwyn Davies.
Self portraits
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2025
Explore how three artists approach photographic self portraiture.
John Davis
Biography
Alan Davies' and Peter Stanbury's The Mechanical Eye in Australia lists Sydney photographer John Davis (life dates unknown) as having a carte-de visite studio on King Street, and as working from addresses on Pitt and George Streets between 1870 and 1873..
1 portrait in the collection
Cooey! An Australian Song
About Face article
"Coo-ey, Coo-ey, Coo-ey, Coo-ey—Love has caught the strain, Coo-ey, Coo-ey, Coo-ey, Coo-ey—it whispers back again." The “Australian lady” who composed these fruity lyrics was none other than Desda— Jane Davies, sometime Messiter (née Price) of Leddicott, Lavender Bay.