A gentleman called Sir Henry Vane Jr, facing right in black doublet, the sleeves slashed to reveal white, wide lace collar, long brown hair; cloud and sky background

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SAMUEL COOPER (1609-1672)
A gentleman called Sir Henry Vane Jr, facing right in black doublet, the sleeves slashed to reveal white, wide lace collar, long brown hair; cloud and sky background
signed with monogram in gold 'SC.' (mid-left)
on vellum laid down on card
oval, 31/8 in. (79 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame with outer projections

Provenance

Robert Partridge, London.
Duveen Brothers, London, in 1912.
Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert, Vienna, in 1924.
Greta S. Heckett Collection, Heckmeres Highlands, Valencia, PA.; (+) part II, Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1977, lot 145.

Literature

J. J. Foster, Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century, Supplement, London, 1914-1916, p. 72, no. 473 (as Sir Henry Vane Jr).
D. Foskett, Samuel Cooper, London, 1974, p. 130 (as Sir Henry Vane).

Exhibited

Brussels, Hôtel Goffinet, Exposition de la miniature, 1912, no. 57 (lent by Duveen Brothers, London).
Vienna, Albertina, Internationale Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina Wien, 1924, no. 156 (lent by Baron Hans Reitzes von Marienwert, Vienna).
Pittsburgh, PA., Carnegie Institute, Four Centuries of Portrait Miniatures, 1954, no. 4.

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Lot Essay

Sir Henry Vane Jr (1612-1662), a well-known leader of the Independents, was a M.P. for Hull. He was expelled from the House of Commons in 1653 by Cromwell whose friend he had been. He was beheaded for high-treason. An unsigned second version of this miniature, identified as Lodowicke Muggleton, the founder of the heretic Sect of Muggletonians (1609-1698), was subsequently in the Addington Collection (26 April 1883, lot 113), the Pierpont Morgan Collection (Christie's, London, 24 June 1935, lot 45), the S. H. V. Hickson Collection (Sotheby's, London, 29 March 1965, lot 40), sold Sotheby's, London, 26 November 1973, lot 74, then in the Edward Grosvenor Paine Collection (Sotheby's, London, 22 June 1981), and sold again Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1985, lot 188.

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