File:Portrait of the Reverend Thomas D'Oyly with His Wife, Henrietta Maria (by Arthur Devis).jpg
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editDescriptionPortrait of the Reverend Thomas D'Oyly with His Wife, Henrietta Maria (by Arthur Devis).jpg |
English: Arthur Devis
Portrait of the Reverend Thomas D'Oyly with His Wife, Henrietta Maria, full-length in an interior Oil on canvas Arthur Devis was one of the leading proponents of the English conversation piece, a genre of portraiture that became fashionable beginning in the 1720s. In contrast to the more conventional and formal tradition of British portraiture, the conversation piece was characterized by a more relaxed and intimate presentation, with sitters depicted in pairs or groups interacting with one another in everyday settings. The figures were depicted in full-length, their scale reduced within the pictorial space, sometimes in landscapes and often, as in this portrait, in the interior of their home. Here we see the Rev. Thomas D’Oyly (1709-1770) and his wife Henrietta Maria, daughter of Robert Godfrey, in their sitting room, seemingly caught off guard as he hands a letter to his wife. In the 1933 auction, the painting was titled Rev. Thomas D'Oyly and His Daughter however, Ellen D'Oench dates this portrait to the artist's early period, circa 1743-44, and thus it more likely represents D'Oyly and his wife soon after their marriage in 1743. Shortly thereafter, D’Oyly became vicar of Kelshall, Hertfordshire and, in 1749, of Radmill, Sussex. He later became Archdeacon of Lewes, Chancellor of Chichester in 1751 and Prebendary of Ely in 1752. Devis was likely introduced to the family by Mrs. D’Oyly’s sister, Amy, whom the artist had painted in circa 1741 with her husband, Charles Wager Purvis. |
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Date | circa 1743-1744 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source | https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/old-masters-collection-a-alfred-taubman-n09458/lot.60.html | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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