£30,000 - £40,000
Arthur Devis (1712-1787) British. The Brydges Children, a boy with a curved cricket bat, and a girl with a basket of flowers, Oil on canvas, In a gilt composition frame with an adorned shield with the coat of arms, 50" x 40" (127 x 101.7cm). Provenance: Charles Holmes Harrison; John Egerton Harrison, nephew of the above, bequeathed in 1918 as "the picture of the Brydges children (the boy with the curved cricket bat and his sister)"; from Ireland to Mrs Daintry Frances Tremearne (nee Harrison), wife of Dr John Tremearne, Creswick, Victoria; Margaret Harrison, Sydney. Notes: The shape of the cricket bat dates to around 1740's to 1770's. The coat of arms suggests a union on the male side of Brydges and Egerton; and on the female side, Fairfowl. The exact identity of the children has not been established, however Edward Brydges (1712-1780) was thought to have been married to Jemima Egerton (1726-1770) which perhaps provides a partial answer to the paternal line. A daughter of Edward and Jemma, Charlotte (1766-1849) married Champion Branfill (1764-1792); and it is through the Branfill, then by marriage, Harrison, line that the painting has come down to the previous owners.
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