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Portrait of a Man

Artist George Engleheart (English, 1750 - 1829)
Dateca. 1775
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy bracelet clasp
DimensionsSight: 1 5/8 × 1 3/8 inches (4.13 × 3.49 cm)
Framed: 1 5/8 × 1 3/8 inches (4.13 × 3.49 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/38
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 124
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a blue coat before a sky background.Provenance

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

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

Published References

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 79, p. 29, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Maggie Keenan, “George Engleheart, Portrait of a Man, ca. 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. 2, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1370.

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