A Drover with His Herd in a Wooded Landscape

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Art Collection

Anthony Devis was born in Preston and was from a well-known artistic family. His half brother was the better-known painter Arthur Devis (c.1711-1787). Anthony is believed to have worked as a painter from the age of 13. He lived and worked in London from 1742 and won a prize for landscape at the Society of Artists of Great Britain in 1763. His work was exhibited at the Free Society of Artists in 1761 and 1763 and at the Royal Academy in 1772 and 1781. Devis toured widely around Britain, particularly in wilder areas such as the Lake District, and gradually both he and those who bought his paintings came under the spell of the picturesque.

Places

Subjects

herdsman, landscape C18th, tree, cow, herd, hill, stone/rock

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), ink, crayon, watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Anthony Devis (1729 - 1816)

Title

A Drover with His Herd in a Wooded Landscape

Date

c.1800

Medium

Watercolour, pen and ink and crayon, on paper

Dimensions

height: 25.80 cm, width: 39.20 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Christie's, March 1977

Inscription

None

Provenance

Sold through Christie's, London, on 1 March 1977 (Lot 109); from which sale purchased by the Department of the Environment

GAC number

13000