Arthur Devis British, 1712 - 1787 Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart, 1757 oil on canvas Overall: 127.6 x 102.1 cm (50 1/4 x 40 3/16 in.) framed: 144.8 x 119.7 x 6.3 cm (57 x 47 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.) Paul Mellon Collection 1983.1.40

From the Tour: British Conversation Pieces and Portraits of the 1700s
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Exhibition History

1963

Painting in England 1700-1850, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1963, no. 224, pl. 71.

1980

The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, no. 36, repro., (cat. by Ellen G. D'Oench).

1986

Gifts to the Nation: Selected Acquisitions from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1986, unnumbered checklist, repro.

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