Portrait of George Washington

With Henry V. Weil (1875–1946), New York [1];

Jonathan Amory Haskell (1861–1923), Red Bank, NJ, by 1923;

Inherited by his wife, Margaret Moore Haskell (née Riker, 1864–1942), Red Bank, NJ, and New York, by 1923–1942 [2];

Sold at her posthumous sale, Important XVIII Century American Furniture . . . Collected by the Late Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 8–10, 1944, lot 462, as George Washington [3];

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] Sir Thomas William Holburne, 5th Baronet of Menstrie (1793–1874), loaned a miniature of George Washington to the South Kensington Museum, London, in June 1865, no. 1505, but there is no way to confirm if this is the same miniature. It is more likely that the Nelson-Atkins miniature was painted in America, and remained in the country until the Haskells acquired or inherited it.

[2] From 1939 to 1944, the miniature was on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from “Mrs. J. Amory Haskell.”

[3] Described in the sales catalogue as: “George Washington, Gilbert Stuart Newton, British: 1797–1835. After the portrait by Gilbert Stuart, painted in London, in 1821; pinchbeck locket frame. From Henry V. Weil, New York. Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1939–44.” According to Art Prices Current (1944–1945), 23:A13, lot 462 was bought for $60.