Portrait of Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby
Workshop of: Christian Friedrich Zincke (German, 1683 - 1767)
Formerly attributed to: Christian Friedrich Zincke (German, 1683 - 1767)
Date: ca. 1730
Medium: Enamel on copper;
Gold case
Dimensions:
Sight: 1 3/4 × 1 7/16 inches (4.45 × 3.65 cm)
Framed: 1 13/16 × 1 9/16 inches (4.6 × 3.97 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Starr and the Starr Foundation, Inc.
Object number: F58-60/166
Inscribed: None
Not on view
In Collection(s)
DescriptionPortrait miniature of a woman with natural hair wearing a white gown before a gray background.
Exhibition HistoryThe Starr Foundation Collection of Miniatures, The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, December 8, 1972–January 14, 1973, no cat., no. 28, as Duchess of Buckingham.
Provenance
Probably Catherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby (ca. 1681–1743), Buckingham House, London, by 1743;
Mr. John W. (1905–2000) and Mrs. Martha Jane (1906–2011) Starr, Kansas City, MO, by 1958;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1958.
Published ReferencesRoss E. Taggart, The Starr Collection of Miniatures in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Kansas City, MO: Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, 1971), no. 28, p. 15, (repro.), as Duchess of Buckingham.