(1712-87)
Devis was a successful painter of small portraits and conversation pieces. Most of his portraits feature sitters of the solid middle class often depicted in their gardens or parlors. His depiction of rather stiff figures may be the result of his use of small dolls or mannikins to compose his pictures. He may have exerted a minor influence on Hogarth.
The James Family (1751)
Sir Nathaniel and Lady Caroline Curzon (1754)
A Lady in Blue (1757)