Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
SAMUEL COOPER (BRITISH, 1609-1672)
Lot 508

SAMUEL COOPER (BRITISH, 1609-1672)

Closed3 June 2015

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SAMUEL COOPER (BRITISH, 1609-1672)
A gentleman, traditionally called George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle (1608-1670), in gilt-studded metal armour, white jabot, long fair hair; cloudy sky background
On vellum
Oval, 72 mm. high, in gilt-metal frame with spiral cresting, the reverse engraved 'Gen,,l Monck, / Duke of Albemarle. / by Cooper'
A label on the reverse of the frame is inscribed 'Superb Miniature / by Samuel Cooper.' and 'Collection Miss Seymour / Exhibited V & A June 1862 / No 2590 / P. 234'

Henry Danby Seymour (1820-1877), Ashridge.
Thence by descent to his niece, Miss Jane Margaret Seymour (1873-1943) of Knoyle, Wiltshire.
The Property of Miss J. M. Seymour; Sotheby's, London, 9 May 1928, lot 49 (as 'General Monck, Duke of Albemarle', £170).
Edward Peter Jones, Chester.
With Charles Woollett & Son, London, in 1961.
Christie's London, 22 October 1974, lot 56 (as 'General George Monck, Duke of Albemarle', 3,500 gns. to Langue).