George Harvey Davis was the son of Grace Geddess Davis of Baltimore. He and his brother, Howard G. Davis, inherited from their mother a portrait (now in the NGA) of three brothers painted in c. 1807 by American naive artist Joshua Johnson. Mrs. Davis had received the painting by bequest of her great-uncle, George Washington Westwood [1804-1897], the youngest child in the picture. George Davis sold the painting in 1955.
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1987
Weekley, Carolyn J., Stile Tuttle Colwill, et al. Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter. Baltimore, Maryland: 138.