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Samuel Cooper (1609-72)
Portrait of a Lady called Mary, Princess of Orange (1631-1660) c.1650
Watercolour on vellum laid on card | 2.0 x 1.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 420082
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This signed miniature is painted on an exceptionally small scale for Samuel Cooper, one which was more often a feature of the work of his accomplished brother Alexander Cooper (see, for example, 422346). The quality of the work is extremely high, even on this diminutive scale. The nineteenth-century identification of the sitter as Mary, Princess of Orange (1631-1660) has not been sustained in recent years, Signed in gold on the left: 'S.C.'
Provenance
First recorded in the Royal Collection during the reign of Queen Victoria
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Watercolour on vellum laid on card
Measurements
2.0 x 1.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
2.9 x 2.5 cm (frame, external)
Other number(s)
Reynolds 1999 : Reynolds, G., 1999. The Sixteenth & Seventeenth Century Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London – Reynolds 1999 109Cust 1910 : Cust, L., 1910. Windsor Castle: Portrait Miniatures, London – Cust 1910 II/95
