Portrait of a Man
Framed: 2 5/8 × 2 1/8 inches (6.67 × 5.4 cm)
Elsie Gertrude Kehoe (1888–1967), Sussex, England, by 1950;
Purchased from her sale, Objects of Vertu, Fine Watches, Etc., Including The Property of Mrs. W. D. Dickson; also Fine Portrait Miniatures Comprising The Property of Mrs. Kehoe, Sotheby’s, London, June 15, 1950, lot 141, as by Lewis Vaslet, A Miniature of a Man, by H. P. Reynolds, 1950 [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] Described in the catalogue as “A Miniature of a Man, by Lewis Vaslet, signed with initial, nearly full face, half-length, powdered hair, white cravat, yellow vest and blue coat, oval, 2 1/2 in.; in fitted case. This is believed to be one of the very few signed miniatures by Vaslet, it was recorded by Long too late for insertion in his great work, but is by the same hand as those mentioned under the initial ‘V.’, p. 445.” H. P. Reynolds bought lot 141 for 10 pounds.
Catalogue of Objects of Vertu, Fine Watches, Etc., Including The Property of Mrs. W. D. Dickson; also Fine Portrait Miniatures Comprising The Property of Mrs. Kehoe (London: Sotheby’s, June 15, 1950), 18, as by Lewis Vaslet, A Miniature of a Man.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 198, p. 67, (repro.), as Unknown Man.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “The Artist ‘V,’ Portrait of a Man, ca. 1775,” 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: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1720.
