Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale

Circle of Christian Richter (Swedish, 1678 - 1732)

Dateca. 1710-20

MediumWatercolor and gouache on vellum; Brass bezel

DimensionsSight: 2 5/8 × 1 15/16 inches (6.67 × 4.92 cm)
Framed: 2 3/4 × 2 1/8 × 1/8 inches (6.99 × 5.4 × 0.32 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/115

InscribedInscribed in a later hand in gold with monogram on lower right: “CR”

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man wearing a blue cloak before a brown background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

International Exhibition of Miniatures, Brussels, 1912, no. 298.

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 26.

Provenance

With Duveen Brothers, London, by 1912 [1];

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1950–1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Notes

[1] It is unknown when the Duveens acquired or sold the miniature, but it was in their hands by 1912, when they loaned it to an exhibition in Brussels. International Exhibition of Miniatures, Brussels, 1912: British Section (London: Speaight, 1912), 24.

Published References

International Exhibition of Miniatures, Brussels, 1912: British Section (London: Speaight, 1912), 24.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 265.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 26, p. 15, (repro.), as John Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale.

Blythe Sobol, “Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, ca. 1710–20,” 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. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.2110.

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