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Arthur Devis

1712–1787 · British

Born
1712 · Preston
Died
1787 · Brighton

20 works in the Collect24 Registry

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Arthur Devis was an English painter whose father, Anthony, founded a family dynasty of artists and writers. He specialized in conversation piece portraits, gaining a considerable reputation, though his success did not last.

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Arthur Devis (19 February 1712 – 25 July 1787) was an English painter whose father, Anthony, was progenitor of what became a family dynasty of painters and writers. The place of Arthur Devis in art history is generally as painter of the type of portrait now called a conversation piece. After moving to London and apprenticeship to a Flemish topographical artist there, he switched to portraiture and acquired a considerable reputation, although this success did not last. Unable to adapt to later fashionable artistic currents, his commissions declined and his work was largely forgotten after his death until the 20th century revival of interest in the conversation piece.

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Selected registered works by Arthur Devis

Selected from 20 works by Arthur Devis in the Collect24 Registry.

Arthur Devis, Portrait of a Young Woman

Arthur Devis

Portrait of a Young Woman, 1748

ivory

6 × 5.4 cm

Yale Center for British Art

C24-463766

Arthur Devis, Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire

Arthur Devis

Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire, 1745

oil paint

97.8 × 123.2 cm

Yale Center for British Art

C24-464200

Arthur Devis, Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.)

Arthur Devis

Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.), 1763

oil paint

76.5 × 63.5 cm

Yale Center for British Art

C24-464286

Arthur Devis, Study for a Portrait of an Officer and His Wife

Arthur Devis

Study for a Portrait of an Officer and His Wife, ca. 1756–58

Black and white chalk and black ink on blue laid paper

45.7 × 29.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-495249

Arthur Devis, An Unknown Woman in a Drawing Room

Arthur Devis

An Unknown Woman in a Drawing Room, 1740

oil paint

50.2 × 34.9 cm

Yale Center for British Art

C24-464475

Arthur Devis, Portrait of a Man

Arthur Devis

Portrait of a Man, 1750

oil paint

29.8 × 47 cm

Tate

C24-462778

Arthur Devis, Portrait of a Woman Standing in a Garden

Arthur Devis

Portrait of a Woman Standing in a Garden, 1739

oil paint

50.8 × 35.6 cm

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

C24-451595

Arthur Devis, Portrait of a Woman Seated beside a Table

Arthur Devis

Portrait of a Woman Seated beside a Table, 1739

oil paint

50.8 × 35.8 cm

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

C24-451593

Arthur Devis, Portrait of a Man Standing Beside a Table

Arthur Devis

Portrait of a Man Standing Beside a Table, 1745

oil paint

50.8 × 35.9 cm

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

C24-451591

Arthur Devis, Portrait of a Gentleman Netting Partridges

Arthur Devis

Portrait of a Gentleman Netting Partridges, 1756

oil on canvas

69.9 × 97.8 cm

National Gallery of Art

C24-100317

Arthur Devis, Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart

Arthur Devis

Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart, 1757

oil on canvas

127.6 × 102.1 cm

National Gallery of Art

C24-100315

Arthur Devis, Members of the Maynard Family in the Park at Waltons

Arthur Devis

Members of the Maynard Family in the Park at Waltons, c. 1755/1762

oil on canvas

138.5 × 195.6 cm

National Gallery of Art

C24-100316

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