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Arthur Devis(Preston 1712-1787 Brighton)Portrait of a member of the Sergison family, possibly Michael Warden of Cuckfield Park, standing full-length, with a view to a park landscape beyond
3 July 2024, 14:00 BST
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Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1787 Brighton)
Portrait of a member of the Sergison family, possibly Michael Warden of Cuckfield Park, standing full-length, with a view to a park landscape beyond
signed and dated 'Art. Devis fe./ 1751' (lower left)
oil on canvas
76.2 x 62cm (30 x 24 7/16in).
signed and dated 'Art. Devis fe./ 1751' (lower left)
oil on canvas
76.2 x 62cm (30 x 24 7/16in).
Footnotes
Provenance
The Collection of Lady Brooke
The Collection of Sir Phillip Sassoon Bt.
The Collection of Mr and Mrs Robert Tritton, Kent
Sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1983, lot 54
With Richard Green, London, by 1986, where purchased by the Chaplin family, Manoir de Ban, Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, Loan Exhibition of English Conversation Pieces, 1930, no. 98 (lent by Lady Brook)
Literature
G. C. Williamson, English Conversation Pieces, 1931, p. 11, pl. XXV
S. H. Paviere, 'Biographical Notes on the Devis Family of Painters' in The Walpole Society, vol. XXV, 1936/37, p. 129, no. 57
S. H. Paviere, The Devis Family of Painters, London, 1950, p. 35, cat. no. 125
C. Neve, 'Arthur Devis: A Minor English Master', in Country Life Annual, 1972, p. 46, pl. 5
E. G. O'Oench, The Conversation Piece, New Haven, 1980, p. 87, no. 139
Charles Sergison (1655-1732), Royal Navy administrator and MP, occupied Cuckfield Park in 1693. He died without issue in 1732, so his estate was left to his great nephew, Thomas Warden, who had married one of his nieces and who changed his name to Sergison, by private act of Parliament. Devis painted numerous members of the Sergison/Warden family, presumably at the same time; other works include the portrait of Sarah Warden and a further male member of the Sergison family (see G. C. Williamson, English Conversation Pieces, 1931, p. 11).
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