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    portrait of Nelson. Devis was born in London, the nineteenth child of the artist Arthur Devis and his wife Elizabeth Faulkner. Devis was the younger brother...
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    interest in the conversation piece. Arthur Devis was born in Preston, Lancashire, the eldest son of Anthony Devis, a carpenter and bookseller who ultimately...
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    The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805 is an 1807 painting by Arthur William Devis portraying the death of Horatio Nelson at 16:30 on 21 October 1805, below...
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  • Devis is a masculine given name and a surname. Bearers include: Devis Epassy (born 1993), French football goalkeeper Devis Favaro (born 1972), Italian...
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    artists produced works depicting the same event. One of these was Arthur William Devis who painted The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805, now also in the...
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  • Benjamin West The Death of Nelson, 21 October 1805, an 1807 work by Arthur William Devis The Death of Nelson (Maclise painting), an 1859–64 work by Daniel...
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    highly distressing to the feelings of all around him". The artist Arthur William Devis had boarded the ship at Portsmouth and was present at the autopsy;...
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    William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst GCH PC (14 January 1773 – 13 March 1857) was a British diplomat and colonial administrator. He was Governor-General...
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    appearing in paintings by Benjamin West and Arthur William Devis, and in books and biographies by John McArthur, James Stanier Clarke and Robert Southey...
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    was painted, together with his sister Temperance, in Calcutta by Arthur William Devis. A subsequent obituary of his brother, Patrick, recorded that Heatly...
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