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Portrait of Denis Daly

Primary TitlePortrait of the Right Honorable Denis Daley
Artist Jeremiah Meyer (German, 1735 - 1789)
Dateca. 1780
MediumWatercolor and gouache on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case with hair reserve
DimensionsSight: 2 1/8 × 1 13/16 inches (5.4 × 4.6 cm)
Framed: 2 1/8 × 1 3/4 inches (5.4 × 4.45 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/90
On View
On view
Gallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a green coat before a sky background.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
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 55, p. 22, (repro.), as Unknown Man.
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Jeremiah Meyer
19th century
F58-60/91
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Thomas Henry Hull
1798-1799
F58-60/79
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George Engleheart
ca. 1800
F58-60/44
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William Grimaldi
1793
F58-60/63
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Richard Crosse
ca. 1765
F58-60/27
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Jeremiah Meyer
ca. 1770
F58-60/89
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John Smart
1802
F65-41/43
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Alexander Gallaway
1796
F58-60/60