Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Auction Closed
May 22, 08:55 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a New York Private Collection
ARTHUR DEVIS
(Preston 1712 - 1787 Brighton)
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN SEATED, FULL-LENGTH, IN A BROWN COAT AND RED WAISTCOAT, HIS HAT AND CANE IN HIS HAND, BEFORE A RIVER LANDSCAPE
oil on canvas
29 by 24 ¼ in.; 73.7 by 61.6 cm.
Mrs. R. Saunders;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 20 March 1974, lot 57;
Alistair McAlpine, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, by 1980;
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 15 July 1988, lot 91;
There acquired.
E.G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 91, no. 228.