John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Flemish he was at a peak

he was at a peak of collectability

as Giltay notes

it seems unprovable

in which he was a colleague of William Cartwright the younger

1762 the picture recorded in 1791-2 is probably identical or similar to one of the portraits tentatively identified as her (Mannings and Postle

John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Flemish he was at a peakJohn Churchill (1650 1722), first Duke of Marlborough, defeated the French at Blenheim 1704, Ramillies 1706, Oudenarde 1708 and Malplaquet 1709. An exceedingly crude derivation from a portrait by Kneller, it was rightly described in Sparkes and Carver 1890 as a 'wretched painting, intended for a representation of the Duke of Marlborough, [it] deserves notice only from its association with a great name. It could otherwise have no title to a place in