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Portrait of a Man

Artist John Ramage (Irish, worked in America, ca. 1748 - 1802)
Dateca. 1780-90
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt metal case
DimensionsSight: 1 3/4 × 1 7/16 inches (4.45 × 3.65 cm)
Framed: 2 1/16 × 1 11/16 inches (5.24 × 4.29 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/114
InscribedNone
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a beige coat before a window.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 225, 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

Martha Jane and John W. Starr, “Collecting Portrait Miniatures,” Antiques 80, no. 5 (November 1961): 439, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 225, p. 74 (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Maggie Keenan, “John Ramage, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1780–90,” 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, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.3110.


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