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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'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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