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John Churchill (1650–1722), First Duke of Marlborough

Christian Richter  (Swedish, 1678–1732)

Medium:
Vellum
Dimensions:
Oval, 3 1/4 x 2 5/8 in. (82 x 67 mm)
Classification:
Miniatures
Credit Line:
Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923
Accession Number:
24.80.508

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  • Catalogue Entry

    Forthcoming

  • Provenance

    Mary Clark Thompson, New York and Canandaigua, N.Y. (until d. 1923)

  • Exhibition History

    New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 5, 1996–January 5, 1997, no. 38.

  • References

    Graham Reynolds with the assistance of Katharine Baetjer. European Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1996, pp. 10, 87, 126, no. 38, ill., state that it is not by Lens, as indicated in the inscription on the frame, but an autograph replica of the Buccleuch portrait by Richter.



  • Notes

    Another version of this miniature by Richter, signed and dated 1714, is in the Buccleuch collection. Paine [see Ref. 1965] and Reynolds and Baetjer [see Ref. 1996] call the MMA work an autograph replica of the Buccleuch miniature.

    John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough, achieved a number of victories against the forces of Louis XIV during the War of the Spanish Succession. The palace designed by Sir John Vanbrugh and built for him at public expense was named Blenheim after the battle of 1704 which resulted in the most decisive of those victories. He was made a knight of the Garter in 1702.

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