Charles d'Agar
Portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, three-quarter-length, in armour and an embroidered sash, holding a helmet, standing beside a stone plinth with a landscape beyond
Charles d'Agar
Portrait of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, three-quarter-length, in armour and an embroidered sash, holding a helmet, standing beside a stone plinth with a landscape beyond
124.5 x 100 cmOil on canvas
Sale Bonhams, London, 3 July 2019
Provenance
Presumably by descent from the sitter via Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough to his daughter, Lady Diana Spencer, who married Frederick St. John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke
by descent to Henry, 6th Viscount Bolingbroke, by whom offered
sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 1943, nr. 45, (bt Leggatt, £21), by whom offered
sale, Christie's, London, 13 May 1960, nr. 59 (bt Collins, £27.6.0)
sale Bonhams, London, 3 July 2019, nr. 17