File:Arthur Devis 13.jpg

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Arthur Devis: The James Family  wikidata:Q28545297 reasonator:Q28545297
Artist
Arthur Devis  (1712–1787)  wikidata:Q3286189
 
Arthur Devis
Alternative names
1708 - 1787; a. devis; devis a.; sen. Devis; devis a.w.; Devis; Portrait painter Arthur Devis
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 19 February 1712 Edit this at Wikidata 25 July 1787 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Preston (Lancashire) Brighton Edit this at Wikidata
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London, Preston, Brighton
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artist QS:P170,Q3286189
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Title
The James Family
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre family portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: This group portrait shows Robert James, together with his wife Mary and two daughters Elizabeth and Ann. James, aged fifty-one at this time, was for many years Secretary to the East India Company. Devis specialized in painting fashionable small-scale portrait groups or 'conversation pieces’ set in domestic interiors or spacious parkland. Although such pictures were intended to portray family groups in a private setting, they can often appear quite formal, and in Devis’s case, even stiff. However, for a man such as James, a display of material wealth and worldly success was perhaps more meaningful than family intimacy.
Date 1751
date QS:P571,+1751-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 98.4 cm (38.7 in); width: 124.5 cm (49 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,98.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,124.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q195436
Current location
not on view
Accession number
N05281
Credit line Purchased 1941
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Source/Photographer Tate Britain

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