Joseph H. Davis

1811

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Joseph H. Davis was an itinerant American portrait painter. Over a period of only five years, from 1832 to 1837, he painted about 150 watercolor portraits of residents of Maine and New Hampshire. The body of work he left behind is highly regarded for its calligraphic line, miniaturizing delicacy, and decorative stylization. His pictures are in many important collections, including those of the American Folk Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, the Terra Foundation for American Art and the Strawbery Banke museum in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Otis and Child

1834 · Watercolor, gum arabic, and graphite on off-white wove paper

10 3/4 x 16 5/8 in. (27.3 x 42.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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