Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Arthur Devis, 1712–1787, British
Title:
Leak Okeover, Rev. John Allen and Captain Chester at Okeover Hall, Staffordshire
Date:
between 1745 and 1747
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
38 1/2 x 48 1/2 inches (97.8 x 123.2 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.746
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
portrait | landscape | genre subject | staff (walking stick) | conversation piece | country house | country house | dwellings | hats | redingotes (overcoats) | breeches (trousers) | collar | riding boots | saddle blanket | tricornes | gloves | waistcoats | fields (agricultural land) | buildings | trees | men | architecture | standing | clouds | architectural subject | sky | sitting | dogs (animals) | horses (animals)
Associated Places:
Dove | Dove | Staffordshire | United Kingdom | England
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Noble Exercise - The Sporting Ideal in Eighteenth-Century British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-07-14 - 1982-09-19)

The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)

Country Houses in Great Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-10-10 - 1980-01-29)
Publications:
Christie's sale catalogue : Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Pictures & Drawings and Engravings of the Early English School of Sir Walter Gilbey : 12 March, 14 March and 15 March 1910, Christie's, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, March 12, 14 and 15, 1910, Lot 142, Fiche B51, Fiche# 1408 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 86-87, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

John Cornforth, The Informality of English Painting, Country Life (Archive 1901-2005), v. 137, Time Inc. (UK) Ltd., London, 1965, p. 21, Available online at Country Life Archive

Country houses in Great Britain., Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1979, pp. 5, 9, 25-36, 108genre subjectgenre subjectstill lifegenre subjectstill lifestill life, no. 15, pl. 15, N6764 Y34 1979 (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, Arthur Devis (1712-1787): master of the Georgian conversation piece, , University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1982, p. 72, 268, NJ18 D5151 D635 1979A (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 8-9, 20, 51-52, 86, cat. no, 16; AD list no, 122, pl. 16, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE

Stephen Deuchar, Noble exercise : the sporting ideal in eighteenth-century British art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1982, p. 39, no. 3, ND1388 G7 D48+ (YCBA)

Judy Egerton, British Sporting and Animal Paintings 1655-1867 : A Catalogue : The Paul Mellon Collection, , Tate Publishing, London, 1978, p. 56, 57, No. 58, ND1383 G7 B75 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

John Harris, The artist and the country house, a history of country house and garden view painting in Britain, 1540-1870 , Sotheby Parke Bernet, London Totowa, N.J., 1979, pp. 165, 217, 251, no. 233, fig. 233, N6764 H36 + (YCBA)

Penelope McElwee, The non-representation of the agricultural labourers in 18th and 19th century English paintings : an exploration into the artistic conventions followed by the aristocracy and landowning classes in representations of the agricultural labourers ..., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016, pp. 26-27, fig. 2-1, NX650.L32 M34 2016 (YCBA)

Arthur Oswald, Conversation Piece in the Making, Country Life (Archive 1901-2005), Vol. 137 Issue 3542, Time Inc. (UK) Ltd., London, 1965, p. 108, 109, Available online at Country Life Archive

Arthur Oswald, Okeover Hall , Staffordshire - II, The Seat o Sir Ian Walker Okeover, Bt. , Country Life, vol. 135, January 30, 1964, p. 228, Uzfe60 C83 OVERSIZE (LSF)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 211, no. 448, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

R. Parkinson, Arthur Devis and His Contemporaries: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn: Exhibit, Burlington Magazine, v. 123, no. 934, January 1981, p. 61, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Gillian Perry, Placing faces, the portrait and the English country house in the long eighteenth century , Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2013, p. 53, ND1314 .P533 2013 (YCBA)

Polite society by Arthur Devis, 1712-1787, portraits of the English country gentleman and his family : catalogue of the exhibition, The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, Lancs., October 1st-November 12th, 1983, National Portrait Gallery, London, November 25th, 1983-January 29th, 1984 , Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston (Lancashire), 1983, p. 35, NJ18 D5151 S37 (YCBA)

Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 138, fig. 102, ND1314.4 .R48 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1198