Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Richard Cosway
(English, 1742 - 1821)
Date1787
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gilt copper alloy case
DimensionsSight: 2 11/16 × 2 1/8 inches (6.83 × 5.4 cm)
Framed: 2 15/16 × 2 7/16 inches (7.46 × 6.19 cm)
Framed: 2 15/16 × 2 7/16 inches (7.46 × 6.19 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/185
InscribedInscribed on verso: "Rdus Cosway R.A. / Primarius Pictor / Serenissimi Walliae / Principis / Pinxit / 1787"
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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a white gown and hat before a sky background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 62, 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.
Martha Jane and John W. Starr, “Collecting Portrait Miniatures,” Antiques 80, no. 5 (November 1961): 438–39, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 62, p. 25, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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Richard Cosway
1795
F58-60/20
Richard Cosway
ca. 1779
F58-60/22
