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Portrait of Richard Burke
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Portrait of Richard Burke

Artist After Sir Joshua Reynolds (English, 1723 - 1792)
Dateca. 1785
MediumWatercolor on ivory; Hinged shagreen case
DimensionsSight: 2 1/8 × 1 3/4 inches (5.4 × 4.45 cm)
Framed: 2 7/16 × 2 inches (6.19 × 5.08 cm)
Case: 2 7/16 × 4 1/16 inches (6.19 × 10.32 cm)
Case: 2 7/16 × 2 1/8 inches (6.19 × 5.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object numberF58-60/155
InscribedInscribed on backing card: “[illeg.] / Benjamin West”
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man with powdered hair wearing a red coat before a brown background.Exhibition History
The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 203, as Unknown Man.
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. 203, p. 68, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, “After Sir Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Richard Burke, ca. 1785,” 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. 3, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1478.

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