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Portrait of a Man

Artist Nathaniel Rogers (American, 1787 - 1844)
Formerly attributed to Charles Fraser (American, 1782 - 1860)
Dateca. 1825
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy foliate case with reserve
DimensionsSight: 2 7/8 × 2 3/8 inches (7.3 × 6.03 cm)
Framed: 3 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (9.53 × 6.99 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/171
InscribedNone
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man wearing a brown coat before a gray-brown background.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 230, as Unknown Man.
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. 230, p. 75, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Nathaniel Rogers, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1825,” 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: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.3220.

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