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Gift of Susan Patricelli-Regan in memory of Sylvia Davis Patricelli, 2013.130.0  Photograph by  ...
Sylvia Davis
Gift of Susan Patricelli-Regan in memory of Sylvia Davis Patricelli, 2013.130.0 Photograph by David Stansbury © 2013 The Connecticut Historical Society.

Sylvia Davis

Australian, 1919 - 2010
BiographySylvia E. (Davis) Patricelli was an Australian portrait painter. She was born in Orange, New South Wales, Australia, the daughter of Elsie Weyer Davis and Leslie James Davis. She attended the Royal Academy of Fine Art and studied under W. Lister Lister, a well-known Australian landscape painter, for three years.

She moved to the United States at age 23 as a war bride. She married Anthony P. Patricelli (1913-2000), and they lived in Granby and West Hartford, Connecticut. Sylvia taught at the West Hartford Art League.


Source: Sylvia Patricelli Obituary. The Hartford Courant, 18 December 2010.
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