Portrait of Mr. Blackburne
Framed: 8 1/2 × 7 7/16 inches (21.59 × 18.89 cm)
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Unknown woman, by November 2, 1971 [1];
Purchased from her sale, Important English and Continental Miniatures, Christie’s, London, November 2, 1971, lot 105, as Mr. Blackburne, by Asprey, 1971 [2];
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1973;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1973.
Notes
[1] According to the 1971 sales catalogue, lot 105 was the “Property of a Lady.”
[2] According to Art Prices Current (1971–72), Asprey bought lot 105 for £630.
Important English and Continental Miniatures (London: Christie’s, November 2, 1971), 31, (repro.), as Mr. Blackburne.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 149, (repro.), as Mr. Blackburne.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “John Smart, Portrait of Mr. Blackburne, February 1811,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.1640.
