Arthur Devis
Study for Portrait of a Lady in a Landscape

ArtistBritish, 1712–1787
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Study for Portrait of a Lady in a Landscape
Datec. 1750s
MediumBlack and red chalk heightened with white chalk on blue laid paper
DimensionsSheet (irregular): 15 1/2 × 8 3/16 in. (39.4 × 20.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer, in memory of Frances Wells Stuart, and in honor of Katherine Susman Howe and Joanne Hutcheson Seale Wilson
Object number2015.438
Non exposé

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ProvenanceThe artist, mid-18th century; private collection, London; [Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, by 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in pen and brown ink, right top edge The Countess of Castlemaine
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, upper right: 1739
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, upper left: 28
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