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Lot 71

Arthur Devis
(Preston 1712-1787 Brighton)
Portrait of Mr. Thomas, full-length, in a blue coat and yellow waistcoat, standing in an interior

5 December 2012, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£20,000 - £30,000

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Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1787 Brighton)

Portrait of Mr. Thomas, full-length, in a blue coat and yellow waistcoat, standing in an interior
oil on canvas
49 x 34cm (19 5/16 x 13 3/8in).

Footnotes

PROVENANCE:
By descent from the sitter to Mary Thomas, Lady Dalrymple-White
With Agnew's, London, 1958
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 June 2005, lot 75

LITERATURE:
E. d'Oench, Arthur Devis, Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, PhD Thesis (unpublished, 1979), p. 419, no. 151
E. d'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and his Contemporaries, exh. cat. (New Haven, 1980), p. 88, no. 151

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