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Portrait of a Woman

Artist John Thomas Barber Beaumont (English, 1774 - 1841)
Dateca. 1795
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case with blue glass over embossed foil
DimensionsSight: 2 1/8 × 1 3/4 inches (5.4 × 4.45 cm)
Framed: 3 3/4 × 2 7/8 × 1/4 inches (9.53 × 7.3 × 0.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/5
InscribedInscribed on recto, lower left: "I. T. B."
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Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman wearing a white gown before a sky background.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. 189, p. 64, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “John Thomas Barber Beaumont, Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1795,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.1302.

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