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ARTHUR DEVIS | PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN SEATED, FULL-LENGTH, IN A BROWN COAT AND RED WAISTCOAT, HIS HAT AND CANE IN HIS HAND, BEFORE A RIVER LANDSCAPE

Auction Closed

May 22, 08:55 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a New York Private Collection

ARTHUR DEVIS

(Preston 1712 - 1787 Brighton)

PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN SEATED, FULL-LENGTH, IN A BROWN COAT AND RED WAISTCOAT, HIS HAT AND CANE IN HIS HAND, BEFORE A RIVER LANDSCAPE



oil on canvas

29 by 24 ¼ in.; 73.7 by 61.6 cm.

Mrs. R. Saunders;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 20 March 1974, lot 57;

Alistair McAlpine, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, by 1980;

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 15 July 1988, lot 91;

There acquired.

E.G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 91, no. 228.