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Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1585, watercolor on vellum, sight: 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4.3 x 3.5 cm), framed: 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (5.7 x 3.8 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/71
Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man (verso), ca. 1585, watercolor on vellum, sight: 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4.3 x 3.5 cm), framed: 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (5.7 x 3.8 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/71
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Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1585

Artist Circle of Nicholas Hilliard (English/French, ca. 1547–1619)
Title Portrait of a Man
Object Date ca. 1585
Medium Watercolor on vellum
Setting Gold and enamel case with pearls
Dimensions Sight: 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4.3 x 3.5 cm)
Framed: 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (5.7 x 3.8 cm)
Inscription Inscribed in a later hand on case verso: “By / N. Hilliard / 1560”
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/71

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.1104

Citation

Chicago:

Blythe Sobol, “Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1585,” documentation 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. 2, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.5.1104.

MLA:

Sobol, Blythe. “Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1585,” documentation. 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. 2, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024. doi: 10.37764/8322.5.1104.

Catalogue Entry

Read more about this object at the associated catalogue entry.

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.

Exhibitions

The Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 5, as Unknown Man.

References

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), 264, as Portrait of a Man.

Ross E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 5, p. 10, (repro.), as Unknown Man.

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Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1585, watercolor on vellum, sight: 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4.3 x 3.5 cm), framed: 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (5.7 x 3.8 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/71
Circle of Nicholas Hilliard, Portrait of a Man (verso), ca. 1585, watercolor on vellum, sight: 1 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (4.3 x 3.5 cm), framed: 2 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (5.7 x 3.8 cm), Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc., F58-60/71
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