Framed oil Painting: Alicia and Jane Clarke by Arthur Devis (1712-1787), oil on canvas c.1758

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Museum number

2007.2

Object

Framed oil Painting: Alicia and Jane Clarke by Arthur Devis (1712-1787), oil on canvas c.1758

Gallery label

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

On display?

Yes
image devis with frame db

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