Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Gervase Spencer
(English, 1722 - 1763)
Date1747
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gilt metal bracelet clasp with woven hair bracelet
DimensionsSight: 1 3/4 × 1 7/16 inches (4.45 × 3.65 cm)
Framed: 1 7/8 × 1 9/16 inches (4.76 × 3.97 cm)
Overall: 1 7/16 × 5 3/8 inches (3.65 × 13.65 cm)
Framed: 1 7/8 × 1 9/16 inches (4.76 × 3.97 cm)
Overall: 1 7/16 × 5 3/8 inches (3.65 × 13.65 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/147
InscribedInscribed on recto, lower right: “GS / 1747”
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a blue gown before a brown background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 38, as Unknown Lady.
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.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 38, p. 18, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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