Portrait of a Man

Artist George Engleheart (English, 1750 - 1829)

Dateca. 1790

MediumWatercolor on ivory; Vermeil bracelet clasp with pink and clear-cut stones

DimensionsSight: 1 1/2 × 1 1/4 inches (3.81 × 3.18 cm)
Framed: 1 13/16 × 1 9/16 inches (4.6 × 3.97 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.

Object numberF58-60/40

InscribedInscribed on case verso, center: "George Engleheart"

On View

On view

Gallery Location

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a blue coat before a sky background.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 78, as Unknown Man.

Artist in Focus: George Engleheart and His Circle, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 12, 2025-April 5, 2026, no cat.

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. 78, p. 29, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Maggie Keenan, “George Engleheart, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1790,” 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/10.37764/8322.5.1388.

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