# Portrait of Lord Robert Kerr

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## Artwork

- Artist: [DEVIS, Arthur](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/devis-arthur-r26778a5f41d6d6>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 46 x 28 cm

## Commentary

This painting represents a small full-length portrait of Lord Robert Kerr standing by a tree; a military camp beyond. Lord Robert Kerr was a cornet in Lord Mark Kerr&#39;s Regiment of Dragoons where he had been commissioned in 1739. Arthur Devis is the best of the many English 18th-century painters of small-scale intimate portraits and conversation pieces. The present canvas is one of his earliest known signed and dated portraits.

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## Attribution

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