Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Andrew Plimer
(English, 1763 - 1837)
Dateca. 1800
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gilt copper alloy case
DimensionsSight: 2 7/8 × 2 1/4 inches (7.3 × 5.72 cm)
Framed: 3 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 1/8 inches (8.57 × 6.67 × 0.32 cm)
Framed: 3 3/8 × 2 5/8 × 1/8 inches (8.57 × 6.67 × 0.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/106
InscribedNone
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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a white gown before a sky background.ProvenanceJohn Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), New York [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] A label on case verso reads, “J.P. Morgan Collection / NYC”. The present miniature was not listed in Morgan’s posthumous sale, “Catalogue of the Famous Collection of Miniatures of the British and Foreign Schools: the Property of J. Pierpont Morgan, Esq,” Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, June 24, 1935, so it may have been sold prior to this 1935 sale.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 170, p. 58, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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