Portrait of a Woman
Artist
Unknown
Formerly attributed to
Joseph Saunders I
(English, act. 1772-1808)
CultureEnglish
Dateca. 1790-95
MediumWatercolor on ivory;
Gilt copper alloy case with red glass and hair reserve with monogram in seed pearls
DimensionsSight: 1 1/2 × 1 1/8 inches (3.81 × 2.86 cm)
Framed: 2 5/8 × 2 1/16 inches (6.67 × 5.24 cm)
Framed: 2 5/8 × 2 1/16 inches (6.67 × 5.24 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/125
InscribedInscribed with monogram on case verso, center: "A"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a blue gown before a sky background.Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 158, as by Joseph Saunders, 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. 158, p. 54, (repro.), as attributed to Joseph Saunders, Unknown Lady.
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