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John Smart, Portrait of Patrick Colguhoun, 1807, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/4 x 2 3/16 in. (7 x 5.7 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0016
John Smart, Portrait of Patrick Colguhoun (verso), 1807, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/4 x 2 3/16 in. (7 x 5.7 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0016
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John Smart, Portrait of Patrick Colguhoun, 1807

Artist John Smart (English, 1741–1811)
Title Portrait of Patrick Colguhoun
Object Date 1807
Medium Watercolor on ivory
Setting Metal frame with lock of hair on back
Dimensions 2 3/4 x 2 3/16 in. (7 x 5.7 cm)
Inscription Inscribed on case verso: “Patrick Colguhoun B 1745 D 1820”
Credit Line Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0016

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4614

Artist's Biography

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

Provenance

Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1966;

Their gift to The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1966.

Exhibitions

Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, May 6–June 3, 1973.

References

Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (London: Cory, Adams, and Mackay, 1964), xxv, (repro.), as Patrick Colquhoun.

Register of the Museum of Art [University of Kansas Museum of Art] 3, no. 7 (Winter 1966).

Charles C. Eldredge, Alumni Gifts to the University of Kansas Museum of Art (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1973).

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John Smart, Portrait of Patrick Colguhoun, 1807, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/4 x 2 3/16 in. (7 x 5.7 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0016
John Smart, Portrait of Patrick Colguhoun (verso), 1807, watercolor on ivory, 2 3/4 x 2 3/16 in. (7 x 5.7 cm), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr, 1966.0016
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