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Portrait of a Woman

Former TitlePortrait of a Lady
Artist Anna Claypoole Peale (American, 1791 - 1878)
Dateca. 1835
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case
DimensionsSight: 2 7/8 × 2 3/8 inches (7.3 × 6.03 cm)
Framed: 3 3/16 × 2 11/16 inches (8.1 × 6.83 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/98
InscribedInscribed on backing card: "Painted by / Mrs A C Staughton / late Miss Peale / 22 Spruce St / Philada."
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman wearing a black gown before a red curtain and column in the background.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 223, 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. 223, p. 73, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
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