Portrait of Major Francis Nichols
Framed: 3/16 × 2 inches (0.46 × 5.08 cm)
Susan Miller Dunglison (1837–1901), South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by 1892 [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] The miniature was listed as the property of Mrs. W. L. Dunglison when it was illustrated in Campbell’s 1892 book. She was married to William Leadam Dunglison (1832–1891) and her maiden name was Richards.
John Hugh Campbell, History of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick (Philadelphia: Hibernian Society, 1892), 127, (repro.), as Francis Nichols.
Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 1, no. 2 (December 1958): 16, (repro.), as General Francis Nichols.
Charles Coleman Sellers and Charles Willson Peale, “Charles Willson Peale with Patron and Populace: A Supplement to ‘Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale’ with a Survey of his Work in Other Genres,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 59, no. 3 (1969): no. 102, pp. 74, 138, (repro.), as Francis Nichols.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 221, pp. 2, 73, (repro.), as General Francis Nichols.
Robert Morris, Elmer James Ferguson, and John Catanzariti, Papers of Robert Morris, 1784–1781 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977), 390, (repro.), as Francis Nichols.
