In the fall of 1803, shortly after arriving with a cargo from Liverpool, Davenport was arrested with the rest of his crew while in port at St. Petersburg when the Czarist Russian government acceded to Napoleon's embargo on British vessels (the "Continental System").
Once in the United States, Britt also painted portraits on commission, including one of Col. George Davenport completed just before Davenport was murdered by river pirates on July 4, 1845.
The two gained some notoriety from their photography of the criminals convicted of the murder of George Davenport in October of that year.
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The town of Macclesfield was named after the Earl of Macclesfield, to whom George Davenport was a steward in England.
He was fourth son of George Davenport, a wealthy English banker, and his wife Jane Devereux, née Davies, and was educated at Mill Hill School in North London.