Portrait of a Woman
School of
George Engleheart
(English, 1750 - 1829)
Dateca. 1795
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gilt copper alloy case
DimensionsSight: 3 3/16 × 2 1/2 inches (8.1 × 6.35 cm)
Framed: 4 × 2 13/16 inches (10.16 × 7.14 cm)
Framed: 4 × 2 13/16 inches (10.16 × 7.14 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/45
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a white gown before a sky 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, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 76, p. 28, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “School of George Engleheart, Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1795,” 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. 2, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1389.
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John Cox Dillman Engleheart
1802
F58-60/42
