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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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Arthur Devis
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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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