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Arthur Devis
Sir Nathaniel and Lady Caroline Curzon
1754
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Arthur Devis
The Young Poet
1849, retouched at a later date
Oil on canvas
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
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Arthur Devis
Self-Portrait
1850-51
Oil on board
National Portrait Gallery.
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Arthur Devis
Portrait of an Elderly Woman
1851
Oil on canvas
Private collection.
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Arthur Devis
Ophelia
1852, retouched 1857-58
Oil on panel.
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Arthur Devis
Benedick in the Arbor
1852-54
Oil on panel
Munro Family Collection.
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Arthur Devis
The Long Engagement
1853-55
Oil on canvas
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
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Arthur Devis
Fair Rosamund
1854
Oil on board
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
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Arthur Devis
Edward Robert Hughes as a Child
1854-55
Oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
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Arthur Devis
Home from Sea
1856-57
Oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Arthur Devis
The Annunciation
1857-58
Oil and pencil on canvas
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
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Arthur Devis
The Nativity
1857-58
Oil and gold leaf canvas
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
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Arthur Devis
The Knight of the Sun
1859-60
Oil on canvas.
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Arthur Devis
The Woodman's Child
1860
Oil on canvas
Tate Gallery, London.
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Arthur Devis
The John Bacon Family
nn07
about 1742-43
Oil on canvas
30 x 51 5/8 in. (76.6 x 131.1 cm)
Yale Center for British Art
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Arthur Devis
A Portrait of Captain James Urmston
mk153
1750
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Arthur Devis
Gentleman and Lady in a Landscape
mk158
1747-49
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Arthur Devis
Unknown man in a landscape garden
mk190
1740-41
The garden is probably fictitious
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Arthur Devis
Probably Dorothy Savile,Countess of Burlington,seated in the Orange tree garden at Chiswick
mk190
c.1741-2
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Arthur Devis
Mrs Edward Travers in a landscape garden
mk190
1751
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1712-1787
English
By 1728 he had left Preston, and the following year he was working in London for the Flemish topographical and sporting painter Peter Tillemans. There he specialized in landscape painting and copying various works in Tillemans studio after Marco Ricci, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Jan van Bloemen. Devis earliest known commission, Hoghton Towers from Duxon Hill, Lancashire (1735; priv. col., see 1983 exh. cat., no. 3), painted for Sir Henry Hoghton during a trip to Preston in 1734-5, shows Tillemans influence in its attention to detail and the use of thin, transparent paint. Thomas Lister with his Family (c. 1738; Chicago, IL, A. Inst.) demonstrates a similar interest in landscape, featuring the family group in Gisburn Park, Lancs. Devis had returned to London by 1742 and established himself as a painter of conversation pieces, with a studio in Great Queen Street. Roger Hesketh with his Family is typical of his work at this time; it shows how Devis transformed the intimacy of a Dutch 17th-century genre scene into an elegant interior with the group of sitters connected by formal, schematic gestures. Roger Hesketh stands apart, in a tastefully contrived pose, his legs crossed and right arm thrust inside his waistcoat. His son, Fleetwood, stands with his hand resting on a dog next to his wife, who is seated with an infant on her lap. The adjacent telescope, globe and marine paintings are intended to advertise Hesketh interest in astronomy and travel.
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