Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford
Framed: 21 × 17 × 1 1/4 inches (53.34 × 43.18 × 3.18 cm)
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Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no 26, as Portrait of Henry Guildeford after Holbein.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 55, as Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford (after Holbein).
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford (after Holbein).
Portraiture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 19-November 28, 2010.
John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 21-January 4, 2024-2026.
John Smart Junior
English, 1777–1809
Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford, 1798
Graphite on paper
Bequest of Milton McGreevy, 81-30/81
John Smart Senior guided his son's artistic education, which involved copying the works of earlier European artists, such as Hans Holbein (German, 1497/1498–1543). Artists revered Holbein and Smart Senior for their insightful character studies. In 1798, Smart Junior completed a set of at least ten drawings copied from Holbein, including this Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford.
Bequeathed by Milton McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1981.
Ross E. Taggart, Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, (repro.), as Portrait of Henry Guildeford after Holbein.
