The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Self-Portrait
- Pencil on laid paper
- 7 ¾ × 6 ⅞ inches · 198 × 174 mm
- Signed and dated: ‘John Smart delineavit Seipsum Madras 1793’
Collections
- John Smart;
- By inheritance;
- Sotheby’s, London, 19 October 1981, lot.184;
- Dr Erika Polh-Ströher (1919-2016), acquired at the above;
- Polh-Ströher sale, Sotheby’s 29 July 2020, lot.247;
- Private collection to 2023
Literature
- John Ingamells, National Portrait Gallery: Mid-Georgian Portraits 1760-1790, London, 2004, p.438