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Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1787 Brighton) Portrait of Miss Mary Warden of Cuckfield Park, later wife of John Thomlinson, standing on a terrace, full-length in a yellow satin dress image 1
Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1787 Brighton) Portrait of Miss Mary Warden of Cuckfield Park, later wife of John Thomlinson, standing on a terrace, full-length in a yellow satin dress image 2
Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1787 Brighton) Portrait of Miss Mary Warden of Cuckfield Park, later wife of John Thomlinson, standing on a terrace, full-length in a yellow satin dress image 3
The Property of the Chaplin family, Manoir de Ban (lots 18 and 19)
Lot 19*

Arthur Devis
(Preston 1712-1787 Brighton)
Portrait of Miss Mary Warden of Cuckfield Park, later wife of John Thomlinson, standing on a terrace, full-length in a yellow satin dress

3 July 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Arthur Devis (Preston 1712-1787 Brighton)

Portrait of Miss Mary Warden of Cuckfield Park, later wife of John Thomlinson, standing on a terrace, full-length in a yellow satin dress
signed and dated 'Art. Devis fe 1751' (on flagstone, lower left) and bears inscription 'The property of Charles Sergison Esq./ Cuckfield Park Arthur Devis 1741' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
76 x 62.7cm (29 15/16 x 24 11/16in).

Footnotes

Provenance
The Collection of Lady Brooke
The Collection of Phillip Sassoon Bt.
The Collection of Mr and Mrs Robert Tritton, Kent
Sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1983, lot 58
With Richard Green, London, 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. 104 (lent by Lady Brook)

Literature
G. C. Williamson, English Conversation Pieces, 1931, p. 11, pl. XXVI
S. H. Pavière, 'Biographical Notes on the Devis Family of Painters' in The Walpole Society, vol. XXV, 1936/37, p. 130, no. 62
S. H. Pavière, The Devis Family of Painters, 1950, p. 58-9, no. 139
C. Neve, 'Arthur Devis: A Minor English Master', in Country Life Annual, 1972, p. 46, pl. 6
E. G. O'Oench, The Conversation Piece, New Haven, 1980, p. 87, no. 168

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