A young lady, in low-cut white dress, purple cloak draped over her left arm, pearl necklace and drop-pearl earrings, her fair hair elaborately dressed in ringlets and upswept in a plaited coil; sky and cloud background

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ENGLISH SCHOOL, AFTER SAMUEL COOPER
A young lady, in low-cut white dress, purple cloak draped over her left arm, pearl necklace and drop-pearl earrings, her fair hair elaborately dressed in ringlets and upswept in a plaited coil; sky and cloud background
on vellum
oval, 3¼ in. (82 mm.) high, gilt-metal frame

Provenance

Francis Denis Lycett Green (1893-1959).
Gifted to his niece, Ursula Vanda Maud (b. 1912), Countess of Glasgow. Thence by descent to the current owner.

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Lot Essay

This is taken after the miniature by Samuel Cooper formerly identified as Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland, in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch (see S. Lloyd's exhibition catalogue Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, Edinburgh, 1996, no. 46, illustrated p. 85).

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