Arthur Devis (1711-1787)

Portrait of Fynn Nash, small full-length, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, in an interior

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Arthur Devis (1711-1787)
Portrait of Fynn Nash, small full-length, in a blue coat and white waistcoat, in an interior
with inscription 'Fynn Nash/March(?)/Coimbra/Portugal/drawn 1747 by Devis in London' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
22 x 12in. (56 x 30.5cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 18 December 1940, lot 106.
John Tillotson by 1948.
Literature
S. Pavière, The Devis Family of Painters, Leigh-on-Sea, 1950, p.52, no. 108.
E. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and his Contemporaries, New Haven, 1980, p. 81, no. 118.

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