ARTHUR DEVIS | PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, POSSIBLY THE REVEREND WILLIAM OF DIGBY, OF LANDENSTOWN, COUNTRY KILDARE, FULL-LENGTH, SEATED BENEATH A TREE, A GUN AND PHEASANT BY HIS SIDE

Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 19 June 1970, lot 47, to Gooding;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman'), London, Sotheby's, 23 June 1971, lot 94, for £800 to Captain Hawker;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 21 November 1984, lot 35 (as Robert Hunter);

David McAlpine (b. 1946);

His sale, Fawley House, Oxfordshire, Sotheby's, 15 October 2003, lot 441;

Where acquired.

A. Crookshank and The Knight of Glin, Ireland's Painter's 1600-1940, London 1978, pp. 83-84, reproduced fig. 69 (as attributed to Robert Hunter, the sitter as John Digby);

E.G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis: Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, unpublished PhD thesis, 1979, p. 467, cat. no. 219, reproduced fig. 121 (the sitter as unidentified);

E.G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece, Arthur Devis and his contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 91, cat. no. 219 (the sitter as unidentified, formerly William Digby of Landenstown, Country Kildare).