Town & Country: A Private Collection

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Arthur William Devis

Portrait of Emily Shakespear, full-length, sitting on a bench under a tree by the Hooghly river in India, holding a book

Lot Closed

December 14, 03:02 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arthur William Devis

London 1762 - 1822

Portrait of Emily Shakespear, full-length, sitting on a bench under a tree by the Hooghly river in India, holding a book


oil on canvas

unframed: 94.2 x 73.8 cm.; 37⅛ x 29 in.

framed: 118.1 x 97.3 cm.; 46½ x 38⅜ in.

A label on the reverse of this painting identifies the sitter as Miss Emily Shakespeare, the sister of Colin Shakespear, who was post-master General in Calcutta and painted by Arthur William Devis in circa 1790.1


1 M. Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London 1979, p. 504, no. 172, reproduced p. 249 (Private Collection, England).