STYLE: Private Collections
STYLE: Private Collections
Property from an Important Private Collection
ARTHUR DEVIS | PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, FULL-LENGTH, STANDING ON A TERRACE, WEARING A GREY SUIT AND BLUE WAISTCOAT, A RIVER LANDSCAPE BEYOND
Auction Closed
November 12, 05:03 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 GBP
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Property from an Important Private Collection
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E.G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis: Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, unpublished PhD thesis, 1979, p. 469, cat.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.
Bath, Holbourne Museum, on loan from 1988-2006.