Richard Cosway, Portrait of a Woman, 1795

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

With Hans Edmund Backer, London, by 1953 [1];

Purchased from Backer by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, October 29, 1953–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] Backer (1901–1965) was a London and Rome-based dealer in porcelain, portrait miniatures, and other objects of vertu. He sometimes bid for the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. This name (Backer and H. E. Backer) comes up in Starr correspondence (see letter of October 11, 1955, University of Missouri-Kansas City archives, box 22, folder 9). He is also listed in the Philbrook Museum of Art object and donor records as H. E. Backer.