Portrait of a Man, Possibly Joseph or John Bennett, Recorder of Cork
Framed: 1 5/8 × 1 3/8 inches (4.13 × 3.49 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., as Gentleman (perhaps Mr. Brennen, Recorder of Cork).
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 92, as Possibly Mr. Brennen, Recorder of Cork.
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 a Man, Possibly Joseph or John Bennett, Recorder of Cork.
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1965;
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.
Possibly Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (London: Cory, Adams, and Mackay, 1964), 63, as Mr. Brennen, Recorder of Cork.
Daphne Foskett, “Miniatures by John Smart,” Antiques 90, no. 3 (September 1966): 354, (repro.), as Possibly Mr. Brennen, Recorder of Cork.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 92, p. 37, (repro.), as Possibly Mr. Brennen, Recorder of Cork.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “John Smart, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Joseph or John Bennett, Recorder of Cork, 1766,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.1518.
