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”.

John Priestley, Eltham Palace (Chichester, 2008), fig. 13.

Beth Fowkes Tobin, Colonizing Nature. The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Philadelphia, 2005), pp. 82-83, fig. 4.

given to the Art Institute, 1951.

Sydney H. Pavière, The Devis Family of Painters (Leigh-on-Sea, 1950), pp. 29, 34, 60, no. 146.

Detroit Institute of Arts, English Conversation Pieces of the Eighteeenth Century, 1948, no. 21, as “A Family in a Park” by Joseph Francis Nollekens.

“Eighteenth-Century England,” Life 5 (October 25, 1948), p. 30, ill.

on loan to the Art Institute 1932-1951

sold to Leggatt Brothers, London, 1926 [according to sources cited above]

sold by Leggatt Brothers to Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington, D.C., 1926 [according to sources cited above]

Presumably commissioned by the principle sitter, Sir John Shaw, 4th Baronet (died 1779), Eltham Lodge, Kent. William and Sutch by 1926 [see exhibition catalogue New Haven 1980 and letter of 22 August 1979 from Ellen D’Oench in curatorial file]

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and his Contemporaries, 1980, no. 39.

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.