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| Keywords: Arthur Devis 13.jpg Artwork Creator Arthur Devis This group portrait shows Robert James together with his wife Mary and two daughters Elizabeth and Ann James aged fifty-one at this time was for many years Secretary to the East India Company Devis specialized in painting fashionable small-scale portrait groups or 'conversation pieces ™ set in domestic interiors or spacious parkland Although such pictures were intended to portray family groups in a private setting they can often appear quite formal and in Devis ™s case even stiff However for a man such as James a display of material wealth and worldly success was perhaps more meaningful than family intimacy 1751 Oil on canvas cm 98 4 124 5 Institution Tate Britain Not on display object history credit line Purchased 1941 accession number N05281 http //www tate org uk/art/artworks/devis-the-james-family-n05281 Tate Britain PD-old-100 Arthur Devis 1751 Portrait paintings in Tate Britain 1751 1750s landscape paintings 1751 oil on canvas paintings in the United Kingdom Portrait 1751 portrait paintings from Great Britain M 18th-century portrait paintings in the United Kingdom 1751 18th-century promenade portraits of families 1751 British promenade portraits Females with satin dresses in art 1751 Files uploaded by Shakko from various sources Habit à la française in portrait paintings 1751 Portraits of parents and children 1751 | ||||
