Museum number
2007.2
Object
Framed oil Painting: Alicia and Jane Clarke by Arthur Devis (1712-1787), oil on canvas c.1758
Materials
Oil
Inscription
signed lower left (on tree trunk): "Art:r Devis/fe"
On display?
Yes

Further description

Simple name
Painting
Dimensions
framed: 8.0000cm (d) x 111.0000cm (h) x 90.8000cm (w)
regular: 71.0cm (h) x 91.5cm (w)
Alicia and Jane Clarke Arthur Devis (1712-1787) Oil on canvas, about 1758 Arthur Devis is one of the best-known painters of ‘conversation pieces’, small-scale informal portraits of groups in idealised landscapes or interiors. Devis’s portraits of country gentry are a fascinating record of Georgian domestic life, fashion, and manners. This image of the middle-aged Clarke sisters of Walford Court, Ross-on-Wye, is particularly unusual as it depicts women as landowners. They inherited their estate from the philanthropist John Kyrle. The landscape background overlooks the river Wye and a village church. Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Holburne Museum, 2007 2007.2

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