Live Auction 7561Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia
Attributed to Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1786 Brighton)
Lot 36

Attributed to Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1786 Brighton)

Portrait of a lady, small full-length, in a white dress with pink underskirt, seated beside a mahogany tripod table, a fireplace with a stucco overmantel beyond

Closed18 June 2008

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Attributed to Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1786 Brighton)
Portrait of a lady, small full-length, in a white dress with pink underskirt, seated beside a mahogany tripod table, a fireplace with a stucco overmantel beyond
oil on canvas
15¾ x 13 in. (40 x 33 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's London, 25 November 1977, lot 77, as by 'Arthur Devis' (sold for 1619 gns.).

Specialist note

The chimneypiece and chimneyboard featured in this picture can be compared with those in Devis' Portrait of Robert Dashwood and his wife, Anne, of Stamford Park, Nottinghamshire of 1750 (private collection). The ornament above the chimney may have been taken from the pattern book issued by G. Brunetti.