Portrait of A. Bowen, Esq.

Artist After Andrew Plimer (English, 1763 - 1837)

Formerly attributed to George Smithson (English, act. 1758-1795)

Datelate 19th-early 20th century

MediumWatercolor on ivory

DimensionsSight: 2 3/8 × 2 inches (6.03 × 5.08 cm)
Framed: 2 9/16 × 2 × 3/16 inches (6.51 × 5.08 × 0.48 cm)

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

Object numberF58-60/146

InscribedInscribed in red on recto, lower right: “S.” Inscribed on frame: “A. Bowen Esq. By Smithson of Barbados 1795.” Inscribed with beaded monogram on case verso: "AB".

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a blue coat before a sky background.Provenance

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, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 197, p. 66, (repro.), as by Smithson of Barbados, A. Bowen.

Maggie Keenan, "After Andrew Plimer, Portrait of A. Bowen, Esq., late 19th/early 20th century,” curatorial notes 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. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.4212.

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