The Edgar Children: Charlotte Edgar (b. 1757) and her Sister Elizabeth Edgar of Red House Park, Ipswich
Arthur Devis (Preston 1712 - London 1787)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1762 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
848 x 1004 mm (33 3/8 x 39 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Ipswich
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446666
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Edgar Children: Charlotte Edgar (b. 1757) and her Sister Elizabeth Edgar of Red House Park, Ipswich by Arthur Devis (1711-1787), Art. Devis. fe. 1762. Two full-length portraits of two little girls in pink frocks, Charlotte, the younger of the two children depicted here, married General François Lewis Hugonin, 4th Dragoons of Nursted, near Petersfield. They are standing facing each other on a terrace in the foreground, from which steps lead down to a park; the elder holds a basket of grapes in one hand, a bunch of grapes in the other; the younger holds a peach in her hand, another in her apron; two small dogs accompany them.
Provenance
Descended in the family of the younger child depicted here, who married General Hugonin. According to the Upton catalogue it remained with the family until 1929, when it was acquired by Lord Bearsted, via Spink & Son, in Jan. 1930 for 400gns;given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948), in 1948, shortly before his death
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Art. Devis fe. 1762
Makers and roles
Arthur Devis (Preston 1712 - London 1787) , artist
Exhibition history
The Bearsted Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1955, no.6
References
Pavière 1937 S.H. Pavière,'Biographical Notes on the Devis Family', Walpole Society, XXV, 1937, p.124, No.124 Pavière 1950 S.H. Pavière, The Devis Family, Leigh-on-Sea, 1950, p.41, No.36 D'Oench 1980 Ellen G. D’Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, No.57