Portrait of Mr. Sharrock, Possibly Robert Sharrock
Sheet: 2 13/16 × 2 7/16 inches (7.14 × 6.19 cm)
Framed: 5 × 4 1/2 inches (12.7 × 11.43 cm)
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John Smart (1741–1811), London, by around 1783–1811;
By descent to his son, John James Smart (1805–1870), London, 1811–1870;
By descent to his daughter, Mary Ann Bose (née Smart, 1856–1934), Edinburgh, 1870–1934;
By descent to her daughter, Mabel Annie Busteed (née Bose, 1878–1967), Essex, 1934–1936;
Purchased at her sale, Sketches and Studies for Miniature Portraits by John Smart, Christie’s, London, December 17, 1936, lot 14, as Mr. Sharrock, by Thomas Agnew, 1936 [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] According to the lot description, “Portrait of Mr. Kingsley, in magenta coat; Portrait of Mr. Milner; and Portrait of Mr. Sharrock.” According to Art Prices Current 16 (1936–37), Agnew bought lot 14 for £21.
Sketches and Studies for Miniature Portraits by John Smart (London: Christie’s, December 17, 1936), lot 14, as Mr. Sharrock.
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, as Mr. Sharrock (sketch).
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 147, p. 52, (repro.), as Mr. Sharrock.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “John Smart, Portrait of Mr. Sharrock, Possibly Robert Sharrock, ca. 1777,” 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. 4, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1572.
