Background
Davenport was born at Bedford, 10 December 1783: while he was still small, his father, an architect and surveyor, moved to London.
Davenport was born at Bedford, 10 December 1783: while he was still small, his father, an architect and surveyor, moved to London.
He was one of the earliest to engrave on steel. There he was in due course articled to Charles Warren. His earlier works were book illustrations after the designs of Henry Chawner Shenton, Henry Corbould, and others
But subsequently he engraved in outline a large number of portraits for biographical works.
He died 15 July 1867.