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Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, ca. 1710–20, watercolor and gouache on velllum, sight: 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 in. (6.7 x 4.9 cm), framed: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/115
Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale (verso), ca. 1710–20, watercolor and gouache on velllum, sight: 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 in. (6.7 x 4.9 cm), framed: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/115
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Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, ca. 1710–20

Artist Circle of Christian Richter (Swedish, worked in England, 1678–1732)
Title Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale
Object Date ca. 1710–20
Former Title Portrait of John Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale
Medium Watercolor and gouache on vellum
Setting Brass bezel
Dimensions Sight: 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 in. (6.7 x 4.9 cm)
Framed: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm)
Inscription Inscribed in a later hand in gold with monogram on lower right: “CR”
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/115

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.2110

Citation

Chicago:

Blythe Sobol, “Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, ca. 1710–20,” 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. 1, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.2110.

MLA:

Sobol, Blythe. “Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, ca. 1710–20,” catalogue entry. 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, edited by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, vol. 1, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024. doi: 10.37764/8322.5.2110.

Catalogue Entry

Expected publication 2024

Provenance

With Duveen Brothers, London, by 1912 [1];

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1950–1958;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.

Notes

[1] It is unknown when the Duveens acquired or sold the miniature, but it was in their hands by 1912, when they loaned it to an exhibition in Brussels. International Exhibition of Miniatures, Brussels, 1912: British Section (London: Speaight, 1912), 24.

Exhibitions

International Exhibition of Miniatures, Brussels, 1912, no. 298.

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 26.

References

International Exhibition of Miniatures, Brussels, 1912: British Section (London: Speaight, 1912), 24.

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 265.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 26, p. 15, (repro.), as John Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale.

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Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale, ca. 1710–20, watercolor and gouache on velllum, sight: 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 in. (6.7 x 4.9 cm), framed: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/115
Circle of Christian Richter, Portrait of a Man, Possibly Henry Lowther, 3rd Viscount Lonsdale (verso), ca. 1710–20, watercolor and gouache on velllum, sight: 2 5/8 x 1 15/16 in. (6.7 x 4.9 cm), framed: 2 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (7 x 5.4 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/115
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