Hammer & Co., c. 1880, Photograph, B 11295
Head and shoulders portrait of Sir Samuel Davenport in seven eighths view. A farmer and landowner, he was a successful breeder of horses and cattle and was a keen promoter of South Australian agriculture with interests in cultivation of olives, silk and tobacco. He had a brief career as a Member of the Legislative Council, then was involved in many aspects of public life including representing the colony at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 and others in Philadelphia (1876), Sydney (1879), Melbourne (1880), Colonial and Indian (1886) culminating in the International Exhibition in Melbourne in 1888. He was knighted in 1884 and in 1886 appointed K.C.M.G.