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Jane Anthony Davis
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'''Jane Anthony Davis''' (September 2, 1821 – April 1855) was an [[United States|American]] artist. Until 1981 she was known only as '''J. A. Davis'''.
Davis was born '''Jane Anthony''' in [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]], [[Rhode Island]], the daughter of Giles and Sara Robinson Greene Anthony. For a short while in 1838 she attended the Warren Ladies Seminary in [[Warren, Rhode Island|Warren]], Rhode Island; it has been posited that she studied drawing and painting at that institution. She married Edward Nelson Davis of [[Norwich, Connecticut|Norwich]], [[Connecticut]], on February 1, 1841, and lived with him in that town for a time. On January 10, 1842, she gave birth to a child. The family moved to [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], Rhode Island; there she gave birth to another child, her second, on April 26, 1847. In August 1854 she produced her last portrait, of Luella Hodges. She died of [[tuberculosis]] eight months later, and was buried in [[Swan Point Cemetery]] in Providence.<ref name="Wertkin2004"></ref>
It was common for women artists of the era to sign their work using only their initials, and Davis was no different in this regard;<ref name="auto"></ref> consequently, she was assumed for many years to be a man. In 1981 collectors Sybil and Arthur Kern identified the artist by name, further confirming the identification with two later reports.<ref name="Wertkin2004"/> She produced miniature portraits,<ref name="auto"/> working in [[watercolor]] and pencil. Most of her subjects are depicted in three-quarter view, at bust length. Often they are clothed in black. Several characteristics appear in many of her depictions: a ragged part in the hair, bluish coloring of their eyelids, a wide and colored horizontal band below the bust, and negative space between the subject's arms and body. The artist sometimes incorporated flowers into her compositions. Many pieces were signed and dated; some also included the subject's name. Davis is known to have produced over 200 portraits, mostly of residents of the areas in which she lived. Three of her unsigned were at one time attributed to [[James Ellsworth (painter)|James Ellsworth]], and later to [[Alexander Emmons]]; three others were attributed to [[Joseph H. Davis (painter)|Joseph H. Davis]] and [[Eben Davis]].<ref name="Wertkin2004"/>
An undated portrait by Davis, ''Lady Seated in a Boston Rocker'', is owned by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2FoxN0L> Another piece, a family portrait, appeared on ''[[Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV series)|Antiques Roadshow]]'' in 2003, where it was appraised at between $25,000 and $35,000.<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:1821 births]]
[[Category:1855 deaths]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American women artists]]
[[Category:American watercolorists]]
[[Category:Women watercolorists]]
[[Category:People from Warwick, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:People from Norwich, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Artists from Providence, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Painters from Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Painters from Connecticut]]
[[Category:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis]]
[[Category:Infectious disease deaths in Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Burials at Swan Point Cemetery]]
Davis was born '''Jane Anthony''' in [[Warwick, Rhode Island|Warwick]], [[Rhode Island]], the daughter of Giles and Sara Robinson Greene Anthony. For a short while in 1838 she attended the Warren Ladies Seminary in [[Warren, Rhode Island|Warren]], Rhode Island; it has been posited that she studied drawing and painting at that institution. She married Edward Nelson Davis of [[Norwich, Connecticut|Norwich]], [[Connecticut]], on February 1, 1841, and lived with him in that town for a time. On January 10, 1842, she gave birth to a child. The family moved to [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], Rhode Island; there she gave birth to another child, her second, on April 26, 1847. In August 1854 she produced her last portrait, of Luella Hodges. She died of [[tuberculosis]] eight months later, and was buried in [[Swan Point Cemetery]] in Providence.<ref name="Wertkin2004"></ref>
It was common for women artists of the era to sign their work using only their initials, and Davis was no different in this regard;<ref name="auto"></ref> consequently, she was assumed for many years to be a man. In 1981 collectors Sybil and Arthur Kern identified the artist by name, further confirming the identification with two later reports.<ref name="Wertkin2004"/> She produced miniature portraits,<ref name="auto"/> working in [[watercolor]] and pencil. Most of her subjects are depicted in three-quarter view, at bust length. Often they are clothed in black. Several characteristics appear in many of her depictions: a ragged part in the hair, bluish coloring of their eyelids, a wide and colored horizontal band below the bust, and negative space between the subject's arms and body. The artist sometimes incorporated flowers into her compositions. Many pieces were signed and dated; some also included the subject's name. Davis is known to have produced over 200 portraits, mostly of residents of the areas in which she lived. Three of her unsigned were at one time attributed to [[James Ellsworth (painter)|James Ellsworth]], and later to [[Alexander Emmons]]; three others were attributed to [[Joseph H. Davis (painter)|Joseph H. Davis]] and [[Eben Davis]].<ref name="Wertkin2004"/>
An undated portrait by Davis, ''Lady Seated in a Boston Rocker'', is owned by the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]].<ref>https://ift.tt/2FoxN0L> Another piece, a family portrait, appeared on ''[[Antiques Roadshow (U.S. TV series)|Antiques Roadshow]]'' in 2003, where it was appraised at between $25,000 and $35,000.<ref></ref>
==References==
[[Category:1821 births]]
[[Category:1855 deaths]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American painters]]
[[Category:19th-century American women artists]]
[[Category:American watercolorists]]
[[Category:Women watercolorists]]
[[Category:People from Warwick, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:People from Norwich, Connecticut]]
[[Category:Artists from Providence, Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Painters from Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Painters from Connecticut]]
[[Category:19th-century deaths from tuberculosis]]
[[Category:Infectious disease deaths in Rhode Island]]
[[Category:Burials at Swan Point Cemetery]]
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