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| | Biography, David DAVIES |
 | | David Davies was born on 21 May 1864 at Ballarat, Victoria, son of Thomas Davies, a miner, and wife Mary, nee Harris, both from South Wales. |
 | | Soon after their marriage the Davies left for St Ives, Cornwall, a popular artists' colony where the predominant style was soft Whistlerian tonality. |
 | | They returned to Melbourne at Easter 1893 and settled at Templestowe, not far from Heidelberg, and there Davies painted the gentle crepuscular landscape for which he is best known: the major painting of this period, 'Moonrise', 1894, was purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1895. |
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