Portrait of a Man

Artist Andrew Plimer (English, 1763 - 1837)

Date1785

MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy bracelet clasp

DimensionsSight: 1 5/8 × 1 5/16 inches (4.13 × 3.33 cm)
Framed: 2 × 1 1/2 inches (5.08 × 3.81 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/177

InscribedInscribed on recto, lower left: "A·P / 1785"

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a blue coat before a gray background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Signed Miniatures, Sidney Hand, London, 1924, no. 6, as A fine miniature of a gentleman.

Provenance

With Sidney Hand, London, by 1924 [1];

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.

Notes

[1] Sidney Hand (1877–1952) was a London dealer who exhibited a large group of portrait miniatures in their gallery in 1924, including the present work, which appears in a printed exhibition catalogue. Sidney Hand, Signed Miniatures (London: Sidney Hand, 1924), 7, 22.

Published References

Sidney Hand, Signed Miniatures, exh. cat. (London: Sidney Hand, 1924), 7, 22, (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 265, as Portrait of a Man.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 174, p. 59, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Blythe Sobol, “Andrew Plimer, Portrait of a Man, 1785,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.1460.

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