Richard Cosway, Portrait of Sir Lawrence Palk, Baronet, M.P., ca. 1791

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

With Leo Schidlof, London, by summer 1949 [1];

Purchased from Schidlof by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, summer 1949–August 7, 1958;

Their gift, through the Starr Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO, to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, August 7, 1958.

Notes

[1] As recorded in the deed of gift and the Philbrook Museum of Art object and donor files. Austrian art dealer Leo Schidlof (1886–1966) directed an auction house and galleries in Vienna and Paris in the early twentieth century. In 1946, Schidlof moved to London, where he died in 1966. An expert on portrait miniatures, Schidlof published The Miniature in Europe in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries (Graz) in 1964.