Starr Collection John Smart Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-026
Overview
Comprised of 13 items including legal documents related to the settlement and disbursement of the estate of John Smart (1740-1811), an English painter of portrait miniatures, to his widow Mary Morton Smart Caley and his children John James Smart and Sarah Smart; an 1867 diary kept by John James Smart; and personal letters and financial documents of John James Smart. The collection came to the museum from John W. and Martha Jane Starr, whose collection of portrait miniatures forms the Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, https://nelson-atkins.org/art/digital-catalogues/starr-catalogue/.
Dates
- Creation: 1808-1867
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1853-1867
Creator
- Smart, John James (1805-1870) (Person)
Extent
13 Items : 12 documents, 1 diary.
Language of Materials
English
Subject
- Smart, John, 1741-1811 (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Starr Collection John Smart Family Papers, MSS 26
- Author
- Tara Laver
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Archives Repository