Biography
Douglas Leslie Gordon Davidson (b. Harrow, UK 1900 - d. Ickworth, Suffolk, UK 1960) was a contemporary of G. W. (Dadie) Rylands and was self-taught. David Garnett states that he was introduced to the Bloomsbury Group by Stephen Tomlin, the sculptor, with whom he had been at school (at Harrow), but it is equally likely that he met them through his Cambridge connections. In 1920s he lodged in Gordon Square with Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell on the two top floors of their house. His principal surviving decorative work is in Dadie Ryland's room in King's College, Cambridge (1927) which he and later Dora Carrington painted. Davidson retired to take over the management of Ickworth, Suffolk (NT) when it was given to the National Trust, together with his brother Angus, who had been secretary to the London Artists' Association. Angus Davidson (1898-1982) wrote Life of Edward Lear.
