John Thomlinson and His Family

1. By descent from the sitters to Major Henry Howard, 34 Nevern Square, London, to at least 1937 [Pavière 1936/7]; offered for sale, Christie's, London, 18 December 1931, lot 80, bought-in. Arthur Tooth and Sons, Ltd., London, by 1948 [see Art News 1948 and New Haven 1980]; sold to the Art Institute, 1956.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Preston, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Work by Lancashire Artists, 1937, no. 4.
• London, Arthur Tooth and Sons, Recent Acquisitions, 1948, no. 2.
• New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis and His Contemporaries, 1980, no. 13, cat. by Ellen Gates D’Oench.

• A.S. Turberville, ed., Johnson’s England: An Account of the Life and Manners of His Age, vol. 2, Oxford, 1933, ill. opp. p. 154.
• Sydney H. Pavière, "Biographical Notes on the Devis Family of Painters," Walpole Society 25 (1936-37), p. 121, no. 4, pl. 41b.
• “The Devis Exhibition: Eighteenth-Century English Painting,” Illustrated London News 190 (20 March 1937), p. 503 (ill.).
• Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, Three Tours through London in the Years 1748, 1776, 1797, New Haven, 1941, ill. opp. p. 20.
• Art News 47 (June 1948), p. 3 (ill.).
• Sydney H. Pavière, The Devis Family of Painters, Leigh-on-Sea, 1950, pp. 34, 57, no. 131, pl. 1.
• Sacheverell Sitwell, “The World of Arthur Devis,” Saturday Book 12 (1952), p. 96 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 126.
• Ellen Gates D’Oench, “Arthur Devis (1712–1787): Master of the Georgian Conversation Piece,” Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1979, pp. 71, 407, 419–21, 435, no. 152, fig. 55.
• Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 212–14, ill.

Sir John Shaw and his Family in the Park at Eltham Lodge, Kent

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Portrait of a Man

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Thomas Lister and Family at Gisburne Park

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Invitation

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Silver Sun

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Swing Music (Louis Armstrong)

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Nature Symbolized No. 2

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A Reasonable Facsimile

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