Details
Samuel Cooper (1609-1672)
A Knight of the Bath, facing right in brown doublet and white lawn collar with tassels, partial sky background
signed with monogram and dated 1655, on vellum, in a rock crystal frame with gold ropework mounts chased and enamelled with four foliate clusters
oval, 1 1/16in. (27mm.) high
Provenance
J. Pierpont Morgan; Christie's, 24 June 1935, lot 41, as a Portrait of Robert, 4th Baron Brooke (90 gns. to Dr. Beets)
Literature
G. C. Williamson, Catalogue of the Collection of Miniatures, the property of J. Pierpont Morgan, London, 1906, I, no. 122
J. J. Foster, Samuel Cooper and the English Miniature Painters of the XVII Century, Supplement, London, 1914-1916, p. 15, no. 30
