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Portrait of a Woman

Artist Thomas Flatman (English, 1635 - 1688)
Dateca. 1660-65
MediumWatercolor on vellum; Gold bezel
DimensionsSight: 2 5/16 × 1 15/16 inches (5.87 × 4.92 cm)
Framed: 2 5/16 × 1 15/16 inches (5.87 × 4.92 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/173
InscribedInscribed on recto, lower right: conjoined “TF”
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman wearing a blue gown before a window.Exhibition History

Four Centuries of Miniature Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 19–March 19, 1950, unnumbered, as Elizabeth Claypole.

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 12, as Elizabeth Claypole.

Samuel Cooper and his Contemporaries, National Portrait Gallery, London, March 15–June 16, 1974, no. 169, as A Lady called Elizabeth Claypole.

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1950–1958 [1];

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Notes

[1] The Starrs lent the portrait to Four Centuries of Miniature Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 19–March 19, 1950.

Published References

Four Centuries of Miniature Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1950), 3, as Elizabeth Claypole.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 135, (repro.), as Elizabeth Claypoole [sic].

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 12, p. 12, (repro.), as Elizabeth Claypole.

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 147, (repro.), as Elizabeth Claypoole [sic].

Daphne Foskett, Samuel Cooper and his Contemporaries, exh. cat. (London: National Portrait Gallery, 1974), 92, (repro.), as A Lady called Elizabeth Claypole.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Thomas Flatman, Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1660–65,” 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. 2, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1214.

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