Leominster has begun to reclaim its association with one of its most famous sons, the child prodigy John Scarlett Davis.

Paintings by the nineteenth century genius, whose work is renowned in Europe and America, are briefly being released from storage in Hereford and are 'coming home' to be shown in the town of his birth.

Plans for a September exhibition at Leominster Library have been hailed as a breakthrough by retired businessman and art lover Don King who has campaigned for Scarlett Davis pictures to be shown in the town.

Now the library, in association with Hereford Art Gallery & Museum, is to stage a Leominster exhibition from September 4-28.

Mr King hopes the town council can arrange for a tiny plaque at the artist's birthplace at 2 High Street, Leominster (Capriole Crafts) to be replaced with something better.

The bold blue plaque of the famous could be unveiled at the launch of the exhibition.

John Scarlett Davis, born in 1804, the son of a clockmaker, was a child prodigy whose early paintings were of Leominster and its characters. He went on to study at the Royal Academy and to paint all over Europe, before his death in 1845.