CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1683/1684 - 1767)

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CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH ZINCKE (ANGLO-GERMAN, 1683/1684 - 1767)
Elizabeth Butler, née Crew, Countess of Arran (c. 1679-1756), in white day gown and blue silk drapery, loose brown curling hair, her right arm resting on a red velvet cushion; interior and landscape background
enamel
oval, 3 in. (75 mm.) wide, gold bezel frame with silver-gilt reverse

Provenance

The Ashcroft Collection; Sotheby's, London, 7 May 1946, lot 19 (133 gns. to Nyburg).
Henry Nyburg; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1969, lot 121 (£600 to Limner).
Christie's, London, 23 March 1982, lot 334.
Sotheby's, London, 9 April 1992, lot 125.

Exhibited

On loan to the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1924-1939.

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Lot Essay

Elizabeth (c. 1679-1756) was the fourth daughter of Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew (1624-1697) and his second wife Anne, née Airmine. She married, in 1705, Lieutenant-General Charles Butler, 1st Earl of Arran and de jure 3rd Duke of Ormonde, an Irish peer. They had no children.

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