Portrait of a Woman (Possibly Elizabeth, Lady Blunt)
Framed: 2 × 1 11/16 inches (5.08 × 4.29 cm)
- 124
Unknown owner, by October 29, 1913;
Sold at the unknown owner’s sale, Aquarelle und Miniaturen aus österreichischem Adels und Privatbesitz, C. J. Wawra, Vienna, October 29, 1913, lot 165, as Dame in weißem Spitzenkleide [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] The miniature is reproduced in the catalogue. Another Starr miniature is also in the sale: Attributed to John Cox Dillman Engleheart, After George Engleheart, Portrait of a Naval Officer, Possibly Rear Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, F58-60/42.
George Williamson and Henry Lewis Dillman Engleheart, George Engleheart 1750–1829: Miniature Painter to George III (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1902), 87–89.
Aquarelle und Miniaturen aus österreichischem Adels und Privatbesitz (Vienna: C. J. Wawra, October 29, 1913), 13 (repro.).
Martha Jane and John W. Starr, “Collecting Portrait Miniatures,” Antiques 80, no. 5 (November 1961): no. 15, p. 441, (repro.), as Portrait of a Lady.
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 73, p. 27, (repro.), as Unknown Lady.
Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “George Engleheart, Portrait of a Woman, Possibly Elizabeth, Lady Blunt, ca. 1786,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.1387.
