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After Samuel Cooper

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After Samuel Cooper
John Maitland, 2nd Earl and 1st Duke of Lauderdale (1616-82), nearly full face in blue and gold doublet slashed to reveal scarlet, the sleeves slashed to reveal white, wearing a long curling wig
signed with monogram and inscribed on obverse 'Duke of- Lauderdale by Cooper in the Poss of Ld Greenwich copy'd by me', gilt-metal frame with ribbon surmount
oval, 3 in. (76 mm.) high
See Front Cover Illustration

Literature

Foskett, Daphne, Samuel Cooper and his contemporaries, London, 1974, p. 45, pl. 101 and p. x, no. 101

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Lot Essay

John Maitland was the grandson of Sir John Maitland (1545?-95) Lord High Chancellor of Scotland. As a Covenanter, he was imprisoned 1651-60; later supported the King, and had great influence over Charles II, who created him Duke of Lauderdale and Marquess of March in 1672.
The original portrait by Samuel Cooper was sold at Christie's on 21st February 1961, lot 88, and is now in the National Portrait Gallery.

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