Artist's Biography
See the artist’s biography in volume 4.
Provenance
Unknown owner, by February 12, 1904 [1];
Purchased from the unknown owner’s sale, Catalogue of Old Sèvres Porcelain, Also Old English Miniatures, Christie’s, London, February 12, 1904, lot 55, as Patrick Colquhoun, by Huggins [2];
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1964 [3];
Their gift to The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1966.
NOTES
[1] “Different Properties” sold lots 50–58.
[2] According to Christie’s The Collectors’ Annual for 1904 (London: Elliot Stock, 1905), 142, the miniature sold for 54 pounds.
[3] The miniature was reproduced in Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (London: Cory, Adams, and Mackay, 1964), and listed as “Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Starr, Kansas City.”
Exhibitions
Catalogue of an Historical Collection of Miniatures and Enamels, The Fine Art Society, London, 1892, no. 342, p. 45, as Patrick Colquhoun.
Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, May 6–June 3, 1973.
References
Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (London: Cory, Adams, and Mackay, 1964), xxv, (repro.), as Patrick Colquhoun.
Register of the Museum of Art [University of Kansas Museum of Art] 3, no. 7 (Winter 1966).
Charles C. Eldredge, Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1973).
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