Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Ozias Humphry
(English, 1742 - 1810)
Dateca. 1770
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Vermeil case
DimensionsSight: 1 15/16 × 1 5/8 inches (4.92 × 4.13 cm)
Framed: 2 × 1 11/16 inches (5.08 × 4.29 cm)
Framed: 2 × 1 11/16 inches (5.08 × 4.29 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/80
InscribedNone
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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a purple surcoat before a brown background.ProvenanceMr. 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, 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), 264.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 70, p. 27, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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