Provenance
Possibly sold, Fine Objects of Vertu, Watches, Enamels, Ivories, Portrait Miniatures, Etc., Sotheby’s, London, November 13, 1952, lot 145, as A Silhouette of a Man [1].
With E. Paine, by 1965 [2];
Purchased from E. Paine by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, 1965–April 25, 1969;
Their gift to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 1969.
Notes
[1] “A Silhouette of a Man, by Miers, in profile to sinister with a lock of hair on the reverse, 1 5/8 in.”
[2] As recorded in the Philbrook Museum of Art donor file. Likely Edward Grosvenor Paine (1911–1989/94), an antiques dealer who specialized in portrait miniatures.
References
Fine Objects of Vertu, Watches, Enamels, Ivories, Portrait Miniatures, Etc. (London: Sotheby’s, November 13, 1952), 15, as A Silhouette of a Man.
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