Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Gervase Spencer
(English, 1722 - 1763)
Date1753
MediumEnamel on copper;
Gilt copper alloy case
DimensionsSight: 1 3/4 × 1 7/16 inches (4.45 × 3.65 cm)
Framed: 2 × 1 7/16 inches (5.08 × 3.65 cm)
Framed: 2 × 1 7/16 inches (5.08 × 3.65 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/150
InscribedInscribed in red on recto, lower left: “S / 1753”.
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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a pink gown before a gray background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 37, as Unknown Lady.
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.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 37, p. 18, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Gervase Spencer, Portrait of a Woman, 1753,” 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: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1646.
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