Portrait of Major William Davy
Framed: 1 7/8 × 1 9/16 inches (4.76 × 3.97 cm)
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John Smart—Miniaturist: 1741/2–1811, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 9, 1965–January 2, 1966, no cat.
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 101.
John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 21, 2024–January 4, 2026, no cat., as Portrait of Major William Davy.
John W. (1905–2000) and Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1965;
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.
Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (London: Cory, Adams, and Mackay, 1964), x, pl. X (repro.).
Daphne Foskett, “Miniatures by John Smart: The Starr Collection in the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum,” Antiques 90, no. 3 (September 1966): 354, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 101, p. 39, (repro.),
Jim Markland, My Name is William Davy: Major Davy Sahib, the Munshi of Gloster, a Tale of Life, Love, and Loss (Cheltenham: printed by the author, 2021), 56, 73, 107, (repro.).
Blythe Sobol, “John Smart, Portrait of Major William Davy, 1775,” catalogue entry in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 4, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1538.
