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Charles Boit, Portrait of Lady Sarah Jennings Churchill, First Duchess of Marlborough, ca. 1710, enamel on metal mounted under glass in a silver gilt pendant case, 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 x 3/8 in. (5.7 x 4.1 x 1 cm), Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.20

Charles Boit, Portrait of Lady Sarah Jennings Churchill, First Duchess of Marlborough, ca. 1710

Artist Charles Boit (Swedish, worked in England, 1662–1727)
Former Attribution Christian Friedrich Zincke (German, ca. 1684–1767)
Title Portrait of Lady Sarah Jennings Churchill, First Duchess of Marlborough
Object Date ca. 1710
Medium Enamel on metal
Setting Silver gilt pendant case
Dimensions 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 x 3/8 in. (5.7 x 4.1 x 1 cm)
Credit Line Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.20

doi: 10.37764/8322.5.4502

Artist's Biography

See the artist’s biography in volume 4.

Provenance

The Natalba Collection, by March 1953 [1];

Purchased from the Natalba Collection by Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, March 1953–August 7, 1958;

Their gift, through the Starr Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO, to the Philbrook Art Center, now Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, 1958 [2].

Notes

[1] As recorded in the deed of gift and the Philbrook Museum of Art object and donor files. This may refer to Donald de Natalba, New York.

[2] The Starr deed of gift lists this work as by [Christian Friedrich] Zincke (German, ca. 1684–1767). However, the miniature was attributed to Boit after consultation with Carol Aiken and Elle Shushan in 2012.

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Charles Boit, Portrait of Lady Sarah Jennings Churchill, First Duchess of Marlborough, ca. 1710, enamel on metal mounted under glass in a silver gilt pendant case, 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 x 3/8 in. (5.7 x 4.1 x 1 cm), Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Gift of the Starr Foundation, Inc., 1958.17.20