{"product_id":"anthony-devis-italianate-landscape-watercolour-circa-1770","title":"Anthony Devis Italianate Landscape Watercolour Circa.1770.","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"row no-gutters\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"col-12 col-sm-12 \"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-justify\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAnthony Devis 1729-1816. British School 18th.Century. Pen ink and watercolour drawing on laid paper Circa.1770. Italianate landscape. 43.5 by 31 cms. Image. 65.5 by 53.5 cms framed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-justify\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-justify\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eAnthony Devis was a painter and draughtsman of charming landscapes inspired by Dutch and Italianate models. Predominantly studies in pen and ink enlivened with touches of colour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevis was born in Preston, Lancashire on 18 March 1729, to the councillor, Anthony Devis, and his second wife Anne. The portrait painter, Arthur Devis, was his older half-brother. Devis was certainly working as a painter in London by 1742, when he was still only thirteen. Returning for a time to Preston, he was back in London by 1762, and living in Gloucester Street with his brother John, a silversmith and watchmaker;\u003cbr\u003ea decade later he had moved to Bedford Row. He specialised in topographical paintings, which he produced in both oil and watercolour, and exhibited – most notably – at the Free Society of Artists (1761 and 1763) and the Royal Academy of Arts (1772 and\u003cbr\u003e1781). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Cool Morning\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, exhibited at the Free Society in 1763, was awarded ‘The Third Premium for Landscape Painting’.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mt-3\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47325526491329,"sku":"","price":290.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/0291\/6033\/files\/20231101-092234.jpg?v=1698832212","url":"https:\/\/www.pbcfineart.co.uk\/products\/anthony-devis-italianate-landscape-watercolour-circa-1770","provider":"Patrick Boyd-Carpenter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}