Anthony Devis. Anthony Devis was an English landscape painter, working especially in watercolor and oils and active in London.
Anthony Devis was born in Preston, Lancashire. His father, also called Anthony Devis, was a carpenter and town councillor in the town.
Anthony junior was the elder of two sons of his father's second marriage, to Anne Blackburne. His father also had two sons by his first marriage, to Ellin Rauthmell, the elder of whom was the portrait painter Arthur Devis.
Anthony Devis the younger did not marry. In the 1742 Preston Guild Roll the younger Anthony Devis was described as being a painter in London, but no work by him has been dated before 1760.
Between 1760 and 1780 he produced many landscape paintings, mainly for landowners in Northern England. He exhibited paintings at the Free Society of Artists in 1761 and 1763, and at the Royal Academy in 1772 and 1781. Most of his paintings were topographical, although later in his career he did produce some idealised views containing classical features. It so happened that this activity of Anthony Devis coincided with an interest of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, who constructed a palace as a staging post between St Petersburg and her summer residence at Tsarskoe Selo. The spot was surrounded by marshes, and the new Chesme Palace was known also as La Grenouillere, from the original Finnish name for the locality, Kekerek
Anthony Devis was born in Preston, Lancashire. His father, also called Anthony Devis, was a carpenter and town councillor in the town.
Anthony junior was the elder of two sons of his father's second marriage, to Anne Blackburne. His father also had two sons by his first marriage, to Ellin Rauthmell, the elder of whom was the portrait painter Arthur Devis.
Anthony Devis the younger did not marry. In the 1742 Preston Guild Roll the younger Anthony Devis was described as being a painter in London, but no work by him has been dated before 1760.
Between 1760 and 1780 he produced many landscape paintings, mainly for landowners in Northern England. He exhibited paintings at the Free Society of Artists in 1761 and 1763, and at the Royal Academy in 1772 and 1781. Most of his paintings were topographical, although later in his career he did produce some idealised views containing classical features. It so happened that this activity of Anthony Devis coincided with an interest of the Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, who constructed a palace as a staging post between St Petersburg and her summer residence at Tsarskoe Selo. The spot was surrounded by marshes, and the new Chesme Palace was known also as La Grenouillere, from the original Finnish name for the locality, Kekerek
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