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Portrait of a Woman

Artist Unknown
Formerly attributed to James Nixon (English, ca. 1741 - 1812)
Dateca. 1775-80
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy bracelet clasp
DimensionsSight: 1 3/16 × 15/16 inches (3.02 × 2.38 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 numberF58-60/93
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature in grisaille of a woman with natural hair and brown eyes wearing a white gown.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. 152, p. 53, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Unknown, Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1775–80,” 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. 3, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1660.

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recto overall
Unknown
ca. 1775-80
F58-60/94
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1774
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John Smart
1777
F65-41/18
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James Scouler
1778
F58-60/136
recto overall
John Donaldson
ca. 1786-1790
F58-60/169
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Thomas Redmond
ca. 1770
F58-60/75
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John Smart
1781
F65-41/22
recto overall
James Scouler
1778
F58-60/137
recto overall
Gervase Spencer
1747
F58-60/147