Portrait of a Cadet from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Artist Thomas Heaphy (English, 1775 - 1835)

Date1803-1806

MediumWatercolor on ivory; Gilt copper alloy case

DimensionsSight: 2 1/2 × 2 inches (6.35 × 5.08 cm)
Framed: 3 × 2 5/8 × 1/8 inches (7.62 × 6.67 × 0.32 cm)

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

Object numberF58-60/70

InscribedInscribed on backing card: “Painted by T Heaphy / Portrait Painter to the / Princess of Wales 83 / Charlotte Street Rathbone / London Place”

On View

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait miniature of a man wearing a blue military coat before a brown 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. 193, as Unknown Officer (possibly Artist’s Son).

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. 193, p. 65, (repro.), as Unknown Officer (possibly Artist’s Son).

Maggie Keenan, “Thomas Heaphy, Portrait of a Cadet from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, 1803–6,” 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, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1420.

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