Sir John Shaw and his Family in the Park at Eltham Lodge, Kent

London, Free Society of Artists, 1763, no. 53, as “A Family with a View of a Gentleman’s House”. Detroit Institute of Arts, English Conversation Pieces of the Eighteeenth Century, 1948, no. 21, as “A Family in a Park” by Joseph Francis Nollekens. New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and his Contemporaries, 1980, no. 39.

“Eighteenth-Century England,” Life 5 (October 25, 1948), p. 30, ill. Sydney H. Pavière, The Devis Family of Painters (Leigh-on-Sea, 1950), pp. 29, 34, 60, no. 146. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 127. Ellen Gates D’Oench, “Arthur Devis (1712-1787): Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece,” Ph.D. Diss., Yale University, 1979 (Anne Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms, 1984), pp. 308, 379, no. 251, fig. 150. Beth Fowkes Tobin, Colonizing Nature. The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Philadelphia, 2005), pp. 82-83, fig. 4. John Priestley, Eltham Palace (Chichester, 2008), fig. 13.