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Portrait of a Man
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Portrait of a Man

Artist James Scouler (Scottish, 1740 - 1812)
Date1778
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy bracelet clasp, converted to a locket
DimensionsSight: 1 5/16 × 1 1/8 inches (3.33 × 2.86 cm)
Framed: 1 5/16 × 1 1/8 inches (3.33 × 2.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/137
InscribedInscribed on recto, left margin: "Scouler 1778"
On View
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Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with natural hair wearing a red coat before a dark background.Exhibition History

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 52, as Unknown Man.

British Portrait Miniatures: An Exhibition Arranged for the Period of the Edinburgh International Festival, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Edinburgh, August 20–September 18, 1965, no. 180, as An Unknown Man.

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. 52, p. 21, (repro.), as Unknown Man.
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