Anthony Devis
Anthony Devis (18 March 1729 – 26 April 1816) was an English landscape painter, working especially in watercolor and oils and active in London.Waterhouse, E., ''Dictionary of British 18th century painters'', 1981, p. 108 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.D'Oench, Ellen G. (2008) 004Devis, Arthur (1712–1787), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Retrieved on 26 August 2010. () Early years 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 la ...
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Landscape Art
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works, landscape backgrounds for figures can still form an important part of the work. Sky is almost always included in the view, and weather is often an element of the composition. Detailed landscapes as a distinct subject are not found in all artistic traditions, and develop when there is already a sophisticated tradition of representing other subjects. Two main traditions spring from Western painting and Chinese art, going back well over a thousand years in both cases. The recognition of a spiritual element in landscape art is presen