Portrait of a lady and a gentleman, small full-length, leaning on a balustrade, with a spaniel, in a landscape

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ARTHUR DEVIS(PRESTON 1712-1787 BRIGHTON)

Portrait of a lady and a gentleman, small full-length, leaning on a balustrade, with a spaniel, in a landscape

ARTHUR DEVIS
(PRESTON 1712-1787 BRIGHTON)
Portrait of a lady and a gentleman, small full-length, leaning on a balustrade, with a spaniel, in a landscape
oil on canvas
30 x 25 in. (76.3 x 63.5 cm.)
in an 18th century English Maratta frame

Frederick Oliver Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon (1852-1923), 47 Cadogan Square; his sale (†), J. & R. Kemp and Co., on the premises, 24 February 1925 (=2nd day), lot 278, as 'School of Zoffany', where acquired by,
with Leggatt Bros., London.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 6 April 1973, lot 102.

E.G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis, PhD dissertation, Yale University, 1979, pp. 483 and 484, no. 243.
E.G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and His Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, 1980, p. 92, no. 243.
Polite Society by Arthur Devis 1712-1787: Portraits of the English Country Gentleman and his Family, exhibition catalogue, Preston, 1983, p. 60, under no. 42, n. 1.

For further information on the collection of the Viscounts Wimborne please visit the tab ‘The Wimborne Collection’ on the main sale page.

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Lot Essay

Although the sitters in the present work remain unidentified, Ellen D’Oench drew attention to the similarities between the poses and composition of a double portrait of Edward and Barbara Parker of Browsholme Hall, Yorkshire, signed and dated 1757 (, 1980, p. 61, no. 34). The horse and groom in the background, as well as a similar stable and church spire appear in both works.

A study for the figures in this painting was sold in these rooms on 3 June 2004, lot 51.