All the oil paintings of Arthur Devis

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
39807		A Portrait of Captain James Urmston	mk153 1750
19093		Benedick in the Arbor	1852-54 Oil on panel Munro Family Collection.
86574		Double Portrait of Alicia and Jane Clarke in a Wooden Landscape	18th century Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 91.5 x 71 cm (36 x 28 in) cyf
19097		Edward Robert Hughes as a Child	1854-55 Oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
19096		Fair Rosamund	1854 Oil on board National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
40925		Gentleman and Lady in a Landscape	mk158 1747-49
48451		Henry Fiennes Clinton,9th Earl of Lincoln,with his wife,Catherine and his son,George,on the great terrace at Oatlands	mk190 Surrey c.1750-51
19098		Home from Sea	1856-57 Oil on panel Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
81937		Mr Peter Ducane	Date 1747(1747) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
76914		Mr Peter Ducane, Mary, nee Norris, his wife The Ducane Children	1747(1747) Oil on canvas 63.5x43.2cms and 3. 63.5x46.2 cjr
48449		Mrs Edward Travers in a landscape garden	mk190 1751
50897		Nelson-s death-bed	mk216 on board the Victory
19092		Ophelia	1852, retouched 1857-58 Oil on panel.
48452		Philip Howard Seated before a panorama of the river Eden at Corby Castle	mk190 Cumberland 1753
19091		Portrait of an Elderly Woman	1851 Oil on canvas Private collection.
74926		Portrait of an unknown Lady	from 1750(1750) until 1755(1755) Oil on canvas 610 X 406 cm (240.16 X 159.84 in) cjr
76489		Portrait of an unknown Lady	Date from 1750(1750) until 1755(1755) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 610 ?? 406 cm (240.2 ?? 159.8 in) cyf
97895		Portrait of Philip Howard of Corby Castle	oil on canvas 69.9 x 90.9 cm. Date 1759(1759) cyf
48448		Probably Dorothy Savile,Countess of Burlington,seated in the Orange tree garden at Chiswick	mk190 c.1741-2
97021		Robert Manners Sutton	oil on canvas 65 x 51 cm cyf
82883		Robert Manners-Sutton	oil on canvas 65 x 51 cm Date 18th century cjr
86721		Robert Manners-Sutton	oil on canvas 65 x 51 cm cyf
19090		Self-Portrait	1850-51 Oil on board National Portrait Gallery.
969		Sir Nathaniel and Lady Caroline Curzon	1754
96616		Sir Roger Newdigate in the Library at Arbury	18th century Medium oil on canvas cyf
19099		The Annunciation	1857-58 Oil and pencil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
82732		The brothers Boldero	1752(1752) Medium Oil cyf
96304		The Clavey family in their garden at Hampstead	1754(1754) Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 124.5 X 99 cm cyf
79172		The Ducane Children Peter Ducane	1747(1747) Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 1 & 2. 63.5x43.2cms, 3. 63.5x46.2 cyf
31321		The John Bacon Family	nn07 about 1742-43 Oil on canvas 30 x 51 5/8 in. (76.6 x 131.1 cm) Yale Center for British Art
19101		The Knight of the Sun	1859-60 Oil on canvas.
19095		The Long Engagement	1853-55 Oil on canvas Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
19100		The Nativity	1857-58 Oil and gold leaf canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
19102		The Woodman's Child	1860 Oil on canvas Tate Gallery, London.
19089		The Young Poet	1849, retouched at a later date Oil on canvas Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery.
78930		Triptych: Mr Peter Ducane, Mary, nee Norris, his wife and The Ducane Children	1747(1747) Oil on canvas 1 & 2. 63.5x43.2cms, 3. 63.5x46.2 cjr
48447		Unknown man in a landscape garden	mk190 1740-41 The garden is probably fictitious

Arthur Devis
1712-1787 English By 1728 he had left Preston, and the following year he was working in London for the Flemish topographical and sporting painter Peter Tillemans. There he specialized in landscape painting and copying various works in Tillemans studio after Marco Ricci, Giovanni Paolo Panini and Jan van Bloemen. Devis earliest known commission, Hoghton Towers from Duxon Hill, Lancashire (1735; priv. col., see 1983 exh. cat., no. 3), painted for Sir Henry Hoghton during a trip to Preston in 1734-5, shows Tillemans influence in its attention to detail and the use of thin, transparent paint. Thomas Lister with his Family (c. 1738; Chicago, IL, A. Inst.) demonstrates a similar interest in landscape, featuring the family group in Gisburn Park, Lancs. Devis had returned to London by 1742 and established himself as a painter of conversation pieces, with a studio in Great Queen Street. Roger Hesketh with his Family is typical of his work at this time; it shows how Devis transformed the intimacy of a Dutch 17th-century genre scene into an elegant interior with the group of sitters connected by formal, schematic gestures. Roger Hesketh stands apart, in a tastefully contrived pose, his legs crossed and right arm thrust inside his waistcoat. His son, Fleetwood, stands with his hand resting on a dog next to his wife, who is seated with an infant on her lap. The adjacent telescope, globe and marine paintings are intended to advertise Hesketh interest in astronomy and travel.