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Portrait of a Woman

Artist Samuel Cotes (English, 1733 - 1818)
Date1774
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy bracelet clasp, converted to a locket
DimensionsSight: 1 1/2 × 1 3/16 inches (3.81 × 3.02 cm)
Framed: 1 9/16 × 1 1/4 × 1/16 inches (3.97 × 3.18 × 0.16 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/25
InscribedInscribed on recto, lower right: "SC / 1774"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a green gown before a gray-brown background.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 44, as Unknown Lady.
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. 44, p. 19, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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