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Lot description
(Preston 1712–1787 Brighton) Portrait of Wrightson Mundy (circa 1712–1762), full-length, in a landscape, indistinctly signed lower left: A Devis / fe 1750, bears inscription lower left: Wrightson Mundy Esq / Obit 1762, oil on canvas, 76 x 63 cm, framed Provenance: by descent in the sitter’s family; Collection of G.S. Clark-Maxwell Esq.; his sale, Christie’s, Collection G.S. Clark-Maxwell Esquire, 19 November 1965, lot 52 (as Arthur Devis); Collection of the Booth Family, sale, Christie’s, London, 14 April 1989, lot 109 (as Arthur Devis); Private European collection Literature: E. G. D’Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries, New Haven 1980, p. 86, no. 117 Wrightson Mundy (c.1712–1762) was an English landowner, Member of Parliament for Leicestershire and Sheriff of Derbyshire. He lived in Markeaton Hall in Derbyshire and Osbaston Hall in Leicestershire. he commissioned a set of five portraits from Devis including three of himself (see literature).