Portrait of Marcia Burnes van Ness

Artist Robert Field (English, ca. 1769-1819)

Date1801

MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case with brightwork, hair reserve

DimensionsSight: 2 3/4 × 2 3/16 inches (6.99 × 5.56 cm)
Framed: 4 × 2 7/8 inches (10.16 × 7.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/50

InscribedInscribed on recto, lower left: “RF / 1801” Inscribed with monogram on case verso: “MVN”

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman wearing a white gown before a landscape background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 226, as Mary van Ness (Wife of the Governor of Vermont).

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. 226, p. 74, (repro.), as Mary van Ness (Wife of the Governor of Vermont).

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Robert Field, Portrait of Marcia Burnes van Ness, 1801,” 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: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1403.

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