Gwendoline Davies was born at Llandinam, her father Edward being the only son of David Davies, an industrialist and philanthropist.
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In particular, they purchased many works by the Impressionists and post-Impressionists, although they also acquired holdings of 20th-century modern artists, such as Josef Herman, Oskar Kokoschka, Augustus John, Stanley Spencer, Frank Brangwyn, and Eric Gill.
Blaker is best known nowadays as advisor to the sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies of Llandinam (Wales UK) in the formation of their internationally renowned collection of French nineteenth century painting and sculpture which they bequeathed to the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff.
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June - The first Gregynog Music Festival, Wales' oldest extant classical music festival, is organised by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) at their home, Gregynog Hall in Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.
The nearby country house is Gregynog Hall, which dates from 1840; in the 19th century it was the seat of the Blayney (Blaenau, originally) Hanbury-Tracy families and became the centre of Welsh cultural life in the 20th century under Miss Margaret and Miss Gwendoline Davies, who had inherited the fortune of their grandfather David Davies of Llandinam.