Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Title:
Probably John Trevor, third Baron Trevor, of St. Anne's Hill, Surrey, and Trevalyn Hall, Denbighshire (formerly T. Travers, Esq.)
Date:
1763
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
30 1/8 x 25 inches (76.5 x 63.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Bequest of Mr. Ernest Hillman, Jr.
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1993.22.2
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
horses (animals) | animals | reading | baron | man | hills | rural | fields (agricultural land) | buckles | stockings | chair | garden | country house | portrait | book | Georgian
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
Publications:
Ellen G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): master of the Georgian conversation piece, , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, p. 253, No. 145, NJ18 D5151 D635 1979A (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 29m65, 88, cat. no. 41; AD list 156, pl. 41, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE

Sydney H Paviere, Biographical Notes on the Devis Family of Painters, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol 25, Walpole Society, London, 1936/1937, p. 124, No. 22, N12 W35 A1 25 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Sydney H Paviere, The Devis family of painters, F. Lewis, Publishers, Limited, Leigh-on-Sea, 1950, p. 57, AD List No. 135, NJ18 D515 P28 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1384