Lot 122: ARTHUR  DEVIS

PROPERTY  FROM  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTION
PRESTON  1712  -  1787  BRIGHTON
PORTRAIT  OF  A  LADY,  SEATED  AT  A  HARPSICHORD,  POSSIBLY  LUCY,  DUCHESS  OF  ST.  ALBANS  (D.  1752)
signed  and  dated  lower  left:  Art:  Devis  fe.  /  1749
oil  on  canvas
61  by  42  cm.;  24  by  16  1/2    in.

London, Grosvenor House, Antiques Fair, 1975.

E. G. D' Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, unpublished PhD dissertation, Yale University, May 1979, p. 444, no. 183.

John Maurice Drummond-Brydson (1896-1983);
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 13 December 1972, lot 116 (as a 'Portrait of a Lady, possibly the Duchess of St. Albans' to S. Sabin for £1,000);
With Sabin Galleries, London, 1972-1975;
Purchased from the above, circa 1975, by Mrs William McAlpine, later Lady McAlpine, Fawley Green, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire;
By whom sold, anonymously ("The Property of a Lady of Title"), London, Christie's, 12 November 1986, lot 87 (as 'Portrait of a Lady').