Portrait of Hugh Innes, later 1st Baronet Innes
Framed: 3 × 2 11/16 inches (7.62 × 6.83 cm)
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The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1800, no. 899, as H. Innes.
John Smart—Miniaturist: 1741/2–1811, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 9, 1965–January 2, 1966, no cat., as Hugh Innes.
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 132, as Hugh Innes.
John Smart: Virtuoso in Miniature, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, December 21, 2024–January 4, 2026, no cat., as Portrait of Hugh Innes, later 1st Baronet Innes.
With Frank Partridge and Sons, London, by January 1951 [1];
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1965;
Their gift to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1965.
Notes
[1] “Miniature of Sir Hugh Innes. Signed and dated, John Smart, 1799,” according to an advertisement in The Connoisseur (January 1951): unpaginated.
The Exhibition of the Royal Academy, exh. cat., 32 (London: B. McMillan, 1800), 34.
advertisement, The Connoisseur (January 1951): unpaginated, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 132, p. 46, (repro.), as Hugh Innes.
Maggie Keenan, “John Smart, Portrait of Hugh Innes, later 1st Baronet Innes, 1799,” 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. 4, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1612.
