Henry Jacob Burch, A Young Girl, ca. 1795

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1982;

Sold at their sale, Silhouettes and Fine Portrait Miniatures, Sotheby’s, London, March 15, 1982, lot 86, as A Young Girl [1];

Current location unknown.

Notes

[1] “A young girl, her hair falling to her shoulders and wearing a frilled white cap trimmed with a ribbon bow and a white dress of spotted muslin, a pendant tied about her neck with a narrow black ribbon, cloud and sky background, mounted as a brooch within a silver-gilt frame with bright-cut borders, the reverse with blue glass surrounding a lock of hair on an opalescent glass ground, oval 2 7/16 in.; 6.2 cm. Compare with a similar miniature of a girl by Burch, signed, in the Victoria and Albert Museum and illustrated by Foskett (D.), A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters, 1972, pl. 31, no. 99.” The annotated catalogue lists “2600” below the lot description.

Henry Jacob Burch, Portrait Miniature of a Young Girl, ca. 1785–1835, watercolor on ivory, 2 1/2 x 1 15/16 in. (6.4 x 4.8 cm), Victoria and Albert Museum, London, P.157-1929.

Silhouettes and Fine Portrait Miniatures (London: Sotheby’s, March 15, 1982), 22, as A Young Girl.