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English: 1747 miniature portrait of John Tennant(1722-1790) of Chapel House in the parish of Kilnsey, Yorkshire, aged 25, Barrister of the Middle Temple. (Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp.2217-8, pedigree of Tennant of Chapel House). Admitted to St. John's College, Cambridge in 1739 and was called to the Middle Temple in 1745, where he is recorded as Master of the Bench in 1779. He was buried at Conistone in Yorkshire in 1790. (Catalogue entry Ellison Fine Art, London, UK) 4.30cm high in a gold frame, the reverse engraved with the Tennant coat of arms (see File:Arms JohnTennant (1722-1790) ofChapelHouse KilnseyYorks.xcf). Provenance: The Albion Collection: Bonhams, 22 April, 2004, lot 25

Exhibitions Bath Holburne Museum of Art, Secret Passion to Noble Fashion. Edinburgh, Phillips, Secret Passion to Noble Fashion, 16th August-3rd September, 1999

Edinburgh, Scottish National portrait Gallery, The Albion Loan Collection until December 2003
Date 1747; signed on obverse, dated and inscribed Ætat 25/ 1747 and ADevis/ ft.
Source http://www.ellisonfineart.com/portrait-miniatures/d/a-rare-mid-18th-century-portrait-miniature-of-john-tennant-1722-90/345677
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Arthur Devis  (1712–1787)  wikidata:Q3286189
 
Arthur Devis
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1708 - 1787; a. devis; devis a.; sen. Devis; devis a.w.; Devis; Portrait painter Arthur Devis
Description British painter
Date of birth/death 19 February 1712 Edit this at Wikidata 25 July 1787 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Preston (Lancashire) Brighton Edit this at Wikidata
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London, Preston, Brighton
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creator QS:P170,Q3286189
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