Lot 172: ARTHUR DEVIS

PROPERTY FROM THE GUSTAV RAU COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT THE GERMAN COMMITTEE FOR UNICEF PRESTON 1712 - 1787 BRIGHTON PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, FULL LENGTH, SEATED UNDER A TREE signed, lower left: A. Devis oil on canvas 73.5 by 61 cm.; 29 by 24 in.

Lausanne,La Fondation pour l’Ecrit, Salon International du Livre et de la Presse, Le livre et le journal chez les peintres, 27 April – 5 May 1996; Remagen, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Das Auge des Sammlers. Kunstkammer Rau, 5 February – 29 August 2010, no. 33.

C. Hussey, 'Godmersham Park, Kent, III', in Country Life, vol. 89, 21 June 1945, reproduced p. 378; S. H. Paviere, The Devis Family of Painters, Leight-on-Sea 1950, no. 53, p. 44; E. G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece, unpublished PhD Thesis, Yale University 1979, pp. 468-9, no. 221; E. G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece, Arthur Devis and his Contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 91, no. 221; V. Anker et al., Le livre et le journal chez les peintres, exhibition catalogue, Lausanne 1996, p. 75, reproduced; O. Kornhoff, Das Auge des Sammlers. Kunstkammer Rau, Cologne 2010, p. 116, no. 133, reproduced p. 117.

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 27 July 1932, lot 270, to Tritton; Mr and Mrs Robert Tritton, Godmersham Park, Kent; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 15 July 1983, lot 60; Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 15 July 1987, lot 51, for £52,800, where acquired by Dr. Rau; Bequeathed by Dr. Rau to the Foundation of the German Committee for UNICEF.