Born Edward Davis, he spent some time working in France, and later prefixed "Le" to his surname.
[2] He is known to have held an auction in 1691, with paintings collected by Antonio Barberini and Sir James Palmer.
As a London engraver of the time he has been considered outranked by Loggan, Peter Vanderbank and Robert White.
His work was featured, however, in a 2001 exhibition on the female courtiers of Charles II, at the National Portrait Gallery, London[1][3] From his Paris period, Davis's prints put out by Chaveau included St. Cecilia after Van Dyck, Ecce Homo after Annibale Carracci, and The Infant Christ holding a cross (1671).
[2] His London engravings included portraits of: Charles II (later altered to William III); Catherine of Braganza after John Baptist Gaspers, the frontispiece to vol.