Town & Country: A Private Collection

Town & Country: A Private Collection

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Arthur Devis

Portrait of a gentleman, full-length, standing on a terrace, wearing a grey suit and blue waistcoat, a river landscape beyond

Lot Closed

December 14, 02:52 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arthur Devis

Preston 1712 - 1787 Brighton

Portrait of a gentleman, full-length, standing on a terrace, wearing a grey suit and blue waistcoat, a river landscape beyond


signed and dated lower left: Art Devis fe 1755.

oil on canvas

76.1 x 63.7 cm.; 30 x 25⅛ in.

Ian Douglas Leonard Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 16 June 1961, lot 56, to Leggatt for 5,200 Guineas;
The Viscountess Rothermere (1929-1992);
Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady'), London, Christie's, 16 July 1982, lot 60;
Private collection, U.K.
E.G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis: Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, unpublished PhD thesis, 1979, p. 469, cat. no. 222;
E.G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece, Arthur Devis and his contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 91, cat. no. 222.