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Last Name Devis

Given Name Arthur William

alt. Names A. W. D. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1762 o 1763 in London, England, UK

Year died 1822 or 1827

Place of death London, England, UK

Father's occupation painter, draughtsman, and portraitist Arthur Devis (1712-1787)

Relatives Thomas Anthony Devis (brother) ; Anthony Devis (uncle) ;

Education taught by his father; studied since 1774 at Royal Academy in London ;

Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for Jaume Saint-Hilaire: Exposition familles nat. plantes 1805; George Keate: An account of the Pelew Islands, London 1788; W. A. Devis: Arts, Manufactures and Agriculture of Bengal; John Biddulph of Ledbury; D. John Augustus Atkinson: journey to Belgium, Waterloo ;

Patronage Royal Academy ;

Collaborators -> Francois Noel Sellier ; -> J. Marchand ; -> Augustine Gabrielle Plée ; Lepine ; -> Euphrasie Picquenot ;

Techniques anthropological, ethnographical, and topographical painting, pen-and-ink, and watercolour ;

Sample(s) www.artnet.com/artists/arthur-william-devis/past-auction-results/2; ;

Archival sources

Published sources AKL 16 2000 551 ; ThB 9 1913 188 ; Dict. of Brit. 18th c. Painters 1981 ; Dict. of Brit. landscape ptrs. 1976 ; Natasha Eaton in: Journal of Historical Geography 43, 2014: 49-53 ;

other draughtsman on HMS Antelope 1793 to West Indies and China; lived between 1785-95 in Calcutta; after shipwreck lived in Palau;

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