Biography
Theodore Russell Davis
Born 1841 in Boston
Died 1894 in Asbury Park, New Jersey
Theodore
Davis was a staff artist at Harper’s
Weekly and a professional Civil War artist-illustrator. He was the Civil
War technical advisor for William Wehner’s American Panorama Company in Milwaukee. He worked on the
panorama paintings Storming of Missionary
Ridge (Battle of Chattanooga) and the Battle of Atlanta from 1885-1887. Each of these artistic marvels measured
approximately 50 feet wide by 375 feet
long and used 90 thousand feet of canvas. Davis
worked with a group of panorama artists including Friedrich Wilhelm Heine and August Lohr on
these projects.