Date of birth: 1760
Date of death: 1819
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Samuel Davis was a East India Company servant and orientalist.
He published articles in the “Asiatic Researches“ (Asiatic Society of Bengal) and was the first Western artist to paint in the Himalayas and the only Western artist of distinction to work in Bhutan.

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