Portrait of a Man

given to the Art Institute, 1951.

Sydney H. Pavière, The Devis Family of Painters (Leigh-on-Sea, 1950), pp. 45, 67, nos. 61-63.

Probably the Hon. Frederick Wallop (1870-1953), London [C.H. Collins Baker in a letter to Hans Huth, January 13, 1948, in curatorial file stated that he knew the picture when it was in Wallop’s collection]. Palser and Sons, 1919 [see New Haven 1980 and letter of March 19, 1993 from Gabriel Naughton of Agnew’s to Malcolm Warner in curatorial file]

on loan to the Art Institute, 1932-1951

sold by Agnew’s to Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1919 [see letter cited above]. Sold by Ehrich Galleries at Anderson Galleries, New York, November 8-9, 1922, lot 116 to A.C. Bower for $370 [the price is given in a annotated copy of the sale catalogue in Ryerson Library of the Art Institute and the buyer is given in New Haven 1980]. Emily Crane Chadbourne, Washington, D.C., by 1932

sold by Palser and Sons to Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1919 [see letter cited above]

Malcolm Warner in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1996), pp. 210-212, ill.

New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and His Contemporaries, October 1 - November 30, 1980 (catalogue by Ellen Gates D’Oench), no. 42.

Ellen Gates D’Oench, “Arthur Devis (1712-1787): Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece,” Ph.D. diss., Yale Univrsity, 1979 (Ann Arbor, Michigan, University Microfilms, 1984), pp. 138, 471, fig. 131.