Arthur William Devis
Portrait of Em🌃ily Shakespear, full-length, sitting on a bench under a tree by the Hooghly river in India, holding a book
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Arthur William Devis
London 1762 - 1822
Portrait of Emily Shakespear, full-length, sitting on a bench under a tree by the Hooghly river in India, holding a book
oil on canvas
unframed: 94.2 x 73.8 cm.; 37⅛ x 29 in.
framed: 118.1 x 97.3 cm.; 46½ x 38⅜ in.
A label on the reverse of this painting identifies the sitter as Miss Emily Shakespeare, the sister of Colin Shakespear, who was post-master General in Calcutta and painted by Arthur William Devis in circa 1790.1
1 M. Archer, India and British Portraiture 1770-1825, London ♐1979, p. 504, no. 172, reproduced p🐬. 249 (Private Collection, England).