Biography

David Davidson was a Polish painter. According to The Jewish Musuem, "Davidson was born in Russian Poland and immigrated to England in 1848. He arrived in the United States in 1851 and settled on Avenue C in New York's Lower East Side. In New York and later in Baltimore and Boston, he continued the art of micrography."

In an article about Davidson that Fanny Seward pasted in her 1858-1859 diary, it notes that Davidson "draws, engraves, paints; but the lines of his drawings are not lines, but minute yet legible words, complete in every stroke and angle. Thus his pictures are all histories, each face or figure telling its own life-long story." Davidson had created an image of Adams' inauguration that had William Seward's name worked into the piece.