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DEYILLY


died there, Dec. 23, 1,857. History painter, pupil of Girodet. Made himself known by lithograph portraits of singers and actors ; later painted religious pictures notable for their sweet and somewhat feeble character, though not without merit in composition. Works : Crucifixion ; St. Sebastian ; As- sumption ; Annunciation ; Charity, Faith, Love, and Hope ; Descent from the Cross ; Torquato Tasso introduced to Elizabeth ; Pericles and Aspasia. — Larousse, iv. G53 ; L'Ai-t (1883), xxxii. 61, 121, 141, 161, 181.

DEVILLY, TH:fiODOKE, born in Metz, Oct. 28, 1818. Mythology and military genre painter, pvipil of Marechal and of Paul Delaroche ; conservator of the Metz Museum, and later of the Nancy Museum. Medals : 3d class, 1852, 1857, 1859, 1861. Works : Battle of Ras-Satah in Algeria (1852) ; Cossack (1853) ; Bivouac in 1812 (1857); The Marabout of Sidi-Brahim(1859), Bordeaux Museum ; Battle of Solferino (1861) ; The Assault, Trumpeter (1863) ; Cossacks Shouting (1867); Mazeppa (1870); The Wounded at Gravelotte, Farewell of Sol- diers to their Officers at Metz (1874); Am- phitrite, Bacchante Asleep, The Wounded Horse (1875); Captured Horses recovered by African Cavalry (1876) ; Triumph of Bacchus (1878).

DEVIS, ARTHUR WILLIAM, born in London, Aug. 10, 1763, died there, Feb. 11, 1822. History and portrait painter, son and pupil of Arthur Devis (1711-1787), a respect- able portrait painter ; studied also in schools of Royal Academy. Went when twenty years old to East as draughtsman for E. India Co., returning to England in 1795. He was a good painter, but unfortunate. Works : Lord Cornwallis receiving Sons of Tippoo Sahib as Hostages ; Detection of Babing- ton's Conspiracy ; Archbishop Langton showing Magna Charta to Barons ; Death of Lord Nelson, Greenwich Hospital ; Death of Princess Charlotte ; Portrait of Miss O'Neil as BeMdera ; do. of Lord Nelson ; do. of Governor Herbert of Calcutta (1791), Na- tional Portrait Gallery, London. His bi'oth- er, Thomas Antony Devis, exhibited portraits in 1776-89. His uncle, Antony T. Devis (1729-1817), was a landscape painter. — Red- grave.

DEVONSHIRE, COUNTESS OF, Anton Van Dyck, Duke of Northumberland ; can- vas. Chi'istian, Countess of Devonshire, staneling, seen to knees, with a rose in right hand ; background, a curtain with a land- scape seen through open door. Engraved by P. Lombard. Another portrait, full- length, Marquis of Ailesbnry. — Head, 44.

DEVONSHIRE, DUCHESS OF, Thomas Gainsborough, Messrs. Agnew, London ; Duchess of Devonshire, Gainsborough, Althorp Park. canvas, H 4 ft. 11 in. x 3 ft. 9 in. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806), full- length. Royal Academy, 1783 ; purchased by Wynn-Eliis for £63 of Mr. Bently, who bought it for .£50 of a Mrs. Maginnis ; Wynn-Ellis sale (1876), to Messrs. Agnew, 10,100 gs. Canvas cut from stretcher and

stolen, night of May 26-27, 1876, from Gal-

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