Portrait of a Man
Artist
Edward Foster
(English, 1762 - 1864)
Dateca. 1810
MediumWatercolor on paper;
Gilt copper alloy bezel and hanger set in wood frame
DimensionsSight: 3 7/16 × 2 11/16 inches (8.73 × 6.83 cm)
Framed: 5 1/2 × 4 11/16 inches (13.97 × 11.91 cm)
Framed: 5 1/2 × 4 11/16 inches (13.97 × 11.91 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr
Object numberF71-29/8
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait silhouette of a man, profile to left.ProvenanceMr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1971;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1971.
Blythe Sobol, “Edward Foster, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1810,” 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. 3, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1406.
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