ARTHUR DEVIS | PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, FULL LENGTH, SEATED BENEATH A TREE BY THE COAST

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Frank;

J.M. Archibald;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie's, 2 May 1958, lot 102 (as mistakenly dated 1756);

There acquired by Cullun;

Possibly with Old Hall Gallery Ltd., Iden, Rye, Sussex;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 23 March 1966, lot 75 (as mistakenly dated 1756);

There acquired by D. Barclay;

Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Gentleman of Title'), London, Christie's, 24 April 1987, lot 87 (as mistakenly dated 1756).

E. G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 91, cat. no. 218.