Portrait of Mary Sackville, Countess of Thanet
Framed: 2 5/8 × 1 1/8 inches (6.67 × 2.86 cm)
Probably Mary Sackville, Countess of Thanet (1746–1778), London, 1771;
Possibly Thomas Hugh Cobb (1863–1944), London, by 1944;
Possibly purchased at his posthumous sale, The well-known collection of fine miniatures and enamels, piqué, snuff boxes and objects of vertu, Sotheby’s, London, October 12, 1944, lot 262, by Asprey, London, 1944;
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.
The well-known collection of fine miniatures and enamels, piqué, snuff boxes and objects of vertu (London: Sotheby’s, October 12, 1944).
British Portrait Miniatures: An Exhibition Arranged for the Period of the Edinburgh International Festival, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1965), unpaginated, (repro.), as Mary, Countess of Thanet.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 69, p. 27, (repro.), as Mary, Countess of Thanet.
Daphne Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters (New York: Praeger, 1972), 2:56, (repro.), as Mary, Countess of Thanet.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 84, as Mary, Countess of Thanet.
