Arthur William Devis
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Arthur William Devis was an English painter of history paintings and portraits. He painted portraits and historical subjects, sixty-five of which he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Among his more famo
Arthur William Devis's Death of Nelson (1805)
Sir William Beatty, Victory's surgeon at Trafalgar (1806)
Grinding Corn
Eliza O'Neill as Belvidera (1816)
Arthur Devis
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Arthur Devis was an English painter whose father, Anthony, was progenitor of what became a family dynasty of painters and writers. The place of Arthur Devis in art history is generally as painter of t
Arthur William Devis
…famous works are a depiction of the Death of Nelson and a posthumous portrait of Nelson. Devis was born in London, the nineteenth child of the artist Arthur Devis and his wife Elizabeth Faulkner. Devis was the younger brother of the painter Thomas Anthony Devis (1757–1810) and of the schoolmistress and grammarian…
A self-portrait dating from 1742-4
Portrait of a Lady in a Landscape (1750) by Arthur Devis
Hoghton Tower in Lancashire
Breaking-Up Day at Dr Clayton's School at Salford (c. 1738)