Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/anthony-devas-1001" aria-label="More by Anthony Devas" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Anthony Devas</a>
Mrs Wilson
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1940
painting oil paint canvas
Mrs Wilson
support: 610 × 508 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1940
<p><b>N05110</b> MRS WILSON 1939
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<br/>Inscr. ‘Devas’ b.l.
<br/>Canvas, 24×20 (60×50).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1940.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> <i>United Artists</i>, R.A., January–March 1940 (1254).
<br/><i>Lit:</i> Allan Gwynne-Jones, <i>Portrait Painters</i>, 1950, p.39, repr. pl.161.</p>
<p>Mrs Wilson, the artist's grandmother, died in January 1940. A small full-length <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the same year was in the artist's Memorial exhibition, Agnew, November–December 1959 (30).</p>
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/devas-mrs-wilson-n05110" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05110</span></a> was formerly catalogued as ‘The Artist's Grandmother’.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I</p>
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