Portrait of a Woman

Artist James Scouler (Scottish, 1740 - 1812)

Date1778

MediumWatercolor, gouache, and shell gold on ivory; Gilt copper alloy bracelet clasp, converted to a locket

DimensionsSight: 1 5/16 × 1 1/8 inches (3.33 × 2.86 cm)
Framed: 1 3/8 × 1 1/8 inches (3.49 × 2.86 cm)

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

Object numberF58-60/136

InscribedInscribed on recto, left margin: "Scouler 1778".

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a white gown before a gray background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 51, as Unknown Lady.

British Portrait Miniatures: An Exhibition Arranged for the Period of the Edinburgh International Festival, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Edinburgh, August 20–September 18, 1965, no. 181, as An Unknown Lady.

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, 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.

British Portrait Miniatures: An Exhibition Arranged for the Period of the Edinburgh International Festival, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Arts Council Gallery, 1965), unpaginated.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 51, p. 21, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.

Blythe Sobol, “James Scouler, Portrait of a Woman, 1778,” 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, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1500.

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