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Portrait of Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, later 21st Baroness de Ros
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Portrait of Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, later 21st Baroness de Ros

Artist Richard Cosway (English, 1742 - 1821)
Date1791
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case with hair reserve
DimensionsSight: 3 1/2 × 2 15/16 inches (8.89 × 7.46 cm)
Framed: 3 3/4 × 3 3/16 inches (9.53 × 8.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/19
InscribedInscribed on verso: "Rdus Cosway / R.A. / Primarius Pictor / Serenissimi Walliae / Principis / Pinxit / 1791".
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DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with powdered hair wearing a white gown before a sky background.Exhibition History

Art Treasures Exhibition 1932, Christie, Manson, and Woods, London, October 12–November 5, 1932, no. 390, as Charlotte, Baroness de Ros.

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 58, as Charlotte, Baroness de Rosa [sic].

Provenance

With S. J. Phillips, London, by 1932 [1];

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.

Notes

[1] S. J. Phillips, a portrait miniatures’ dealer, exhibited the work at Art Treasures Exhibition 1932 between October 12 and November 5, 1932.


Published References

Art Treasures’ Exhibition 1932, exh. cat. (London: Christie, Manson, and Woods, 1932), no. 390.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 58, p. 23, (repro.), as Charlotte, Baroness de Rosa [sic].

Fine watches, Miniatures, and Vertu (New York: Sotheby, Parke, Bernet, October 30-31, 1974), lot 199.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “Richard Cosway, Portrait of Lady Charlotte FitzGerald, later 21st Baroness de Ros, 1791,” 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: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1328.

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